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South Australian
Birds
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Activity
2 - Locating the information |
When you have chosen your bird, click the button
next to the Data Collection Grid Template and complete the following steps.
(You may prefer to print the instructions for this activity instead
of reading them from this page.)
| Data Collection Grid |
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| To print the instructions |
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insert your floppy in the drive
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make sure that the save this file to disk
option is selected in the dialogue box
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click OK
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make sure that the word datagrid is in the File
name text box
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select the floppy (A:) drive from the
drop-down list
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click save
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when the download is complete, click open
You will see a button for your document on the
taskbar at the bottom of the page.
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click on the (+) and (-) buttons
on the toolbar to zoom in or zoom out of your page.
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type in the details required at the top of the
page and save.
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check the headings on the grid and choose two
other headings of your choice for the bottom two boxes.
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type them in using bold Arial font and centre
them.
You are now ready to read through the information
in the first web site and copy and paste groups of words (notes) that provide
information for one of the headings in your grid, and paste them into your
Data Collection Grid.
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highlight the group of words with your mouse
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click on the edit button and select copy
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click on the publisher document button in the
task bar at the bottom of the page
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select the relevant box to paste your notes
into
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click on the paste button on the toolbar
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continue to save frequently
Continue reading through the information on
the web sites and copy and paste until you think you have enough notes
in each box. Then
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highlight each group and select the Bookman
font, which is easy to read
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keeping each group highlighted click on to the
bullets
button to create a bulleted list.
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print your Data Collection Grid.
Now go to Activity
3
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