Transcript Making a Study Unit

Making a Study Unit
Presenter
Joshua Chacko
Starting the Study Unit
Pick a topic.
• I am using the Starfish as an illustration.
Make sure you have all the Word templates.
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Pictures – su picture.dot
Name Sheet – su name.dot
Definitions – su info.dot
Coloring Sheet – su color.dot
Booklet – su book.dot
Title – su title.dot
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Preparing and Making Pictures
Find the graphics (and definitions)
• EnchantedLearning.com is a good source for
graphics and definitions
Clean up the graphics
• Take out the lines and/or the answers
• Use any Paint program
Make a picture for each feature.
• Highlight the feature.
• Save it in .gif format with an appropriate name.
(Example: starfish central disk.gif)
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Putting Pictures in Template
Copy each picture and put it
in the left column. Label the
picture.
Copy the same picture and put
it in the right column
One page of the pictures
should look like this.
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The Labels -- Name.doc
Open the su_name.dot template.
Put the names of the parts of the starfish in
the first column.
• Use the same order that you used in the picture
document.
This is the font to use.
• Comic Sans MS, 16 point Bold
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Starfish name.doc
Make the second and third
columns identical to the
first.
This is how the finished
starfish name.doc looks.
Save the document as
“starfish name.doc”
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The Definitions -- info1.doc
Open the su_info.dot template.
Enter the definitions in the same order as the
starfish name.doc.
Leave the name of the part of the starfish in
the definition.
Reword each definition as you enter it.
• Be sure each definition makes sense.
• Avoid plagiarism!
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Completed Info1.doc
Save the document as
“starfish info1.doc.”
This is one page of my
“starfish info1.doc.”
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Make Info2.doc
Open starfish info1.doc.
Save the document as
starfish info2.doc.
Take the part name out of
the definition and reword
it if necessary.
This is a page of my
finished starfish info2.doc.
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Coloring Page
Open the su color.dot
template.
Put a blank picture in
each section.
I saved the file as
“starfish.doc.”
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Starfish Book
Open the su book.dot template.
Count the number of pictures you have.
Make that number pages in your book.
Put the name of one characteristic in the
title line of each page.
Put a blank picture on each page.
Save the file as starfish book.doc.
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Finished Page of Starfish Book
This is how a finished page of
starfish book.doc looks.
If people want to save printer
ink and paper, they can make
a book using notebook paper,
by pasting one of the pictures
from the coloring page at the
top of each page.
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The Title Page
Open the su title.doc template.
Type “The Starfish” near the top
of the page.
Put a picture of a starfish on the
page.
Save the file as “starfish
title.doc.”
This is how my finished title
page looks.
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My Opinion
I think the definitions are the hardest part of
the study unit.
I used Windows Paint on this study unit.
• Paint Shop Pro is an excellent program. You
can get a free 30 day evaluation copy on the
internet.
I am 11 years old and it took me 2 days to
complete this study unit.
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