Grades 3-8: Coding Advanced - Website Design (Virtual)

Coding is an important language to learn. With the demand for STEM workers increasing, learning coding from an early age is a sure way to gain an advantage in today’s competitive career world.

The websites you encounter every day are made up of at least three programming languages: HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. These work together to define how the content on the server (text, images, videos, objects, etc) are displayed by a visitor’s browser. When learning about websites the real knowledge lies in understanding the text based code itself, and we use it directly when making websites at MakerKids.

In our Make A Website program, makers are led by a MakerKids Mentor through the basics of making a website. Makers will continually add more features and functionality to their site allowing them to learn as they create. Starting with the skeleton structure and some common HTML elements, they progress on to style their elements with CSS, and finally take a look at dynamic content with CSS and a bit of JS. Makers will have made their very own website and have a better understanding of what is going on behind the scenes of every website they visit. Kids will also see what else front website development is truly capable of if they commit the time and effort into steadily working on all the aspects of a long-term project.