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The Coffee Craze

1999
We decided to design a web page on coffee since Tana's mother works in a coffee shop, and more kids are drinking coffee because of the caffeine effect. We spent hours on Internet looking for coffee web sites, but everything we found was associated with buying coffee from a business or it was difficult to understand. Therefore, we decided that our project would not only give information about coffee, but would also be fun to read. We talked about how coffee berries become coffee through diary entries. We also told about the history of coffee and gave little known facts about coffee. We explained the difference between the major types of coffee that kids are drinking or that they hear about the most. Other topics we researched included how caffeine affects your body and your sleep. We included a hand-drawn map that shows the major places coffee is produced and a hand-drawn graph of the top ten coffee producing countries. Our educational objectives for this project were:  Learn to use PageMill (a web-authoring program)  Design informative web pages based on curriculum taught to fourth-sixth graders in California. Coffee and caffeine are discussed in the 4th - 6th grade Drug Awareness Program in California.  Learn to use a scanner and digital camera  Learn to search for information using a variety of sources - Internet, books, interviews, etc.  Learn how to create web page backgrounds  Learn how to organize our time and work together as a team