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South Australian
Birds
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Activity
4 - Working with the text |
Using your notes, you are now going to use
Publisher to write a Fact Sheet on your bird that another student can read
and understand. Before you start, look at the following pages and think
about whether the information is easy to read and understand. Ask yourself
the following questions as you look at each page.
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What are the things that help me to read and
understand the information?
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What are the things that hinder me from reading
and understanding the information?
Now look at the following page, which is
a good example of a Fact Sheet
It has:
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plenty of headings with the text straight underneath
to help people find the information they are looking for.
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plenty of room between the headings and the
information above, so that the headings are easy to see.
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pictures that don't get in the way of the reading.
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plenty of white space so that the information
stands out.
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lines that are not too long or too short for
easy reading.
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a font without serifs (little feet) that is
of a good size, shape and thickness for the headings and a different font
with serifs that is easy to read, for the rest of the text.
(with serifs,
without
serifs)
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text that is aligned to the left for easier
reading.
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no words in UPPERCASE text, no underlining,
no words in bold, hardly any italics, which are all things
that make text hard to read.
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a white background with a dark coloured text
which a good combination for easy reading.
These are important things to take into consideration
when you are constructing your Fact Sheet.
| To print these useful tips |
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Click the button next to the Bird Fact Sheet
and complete the following steps. (You may prefer to print the instructions
for this activity instead of reading them from this page).
| Bird Fact Sheet |
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| To print the instructions |
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insert your floppy in the drive
make sure that the save this file to disk
option is selected in the dialogue box
click OK
make sure that the word factsheet is in the
File
name text box
select the floppy (A:) drive from the
drop-down list
click save
when the download is complete, click
open
You will see a button for your document on the
taskbar at the bottom of the page.
click on the (+) and (-) buttons
on the toolbar to zoom in or zoom out of your page.
select the Arial font; size 24; bold style;
blue text colour; and type your bird’s common name in the top text box
and centre it.
use the same font; size 14; italic style; black
text colour; and type the bird’s scientific name underneath in brackets
and centre it.
You are now ready to type the first heading
from your Data Collection Grid and start your Bird Fact Sheet.
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select the Arial font, size 14, bold style,
black text colour, and type the heading Appearance into the text
box on the left hand side of the page.
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select Bookman font, size 12 and use your notes
to write a few sentences about your bird’s appearance under the heading.
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continue with the other headings in the same
way, using the text box on the bottom right hand corner for the last 3
headings.
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write your name in the text box at the bottom
of the page and make sure it is centred.
You are now ready to work with the graphics.
Now go to Activity 5
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Echidna Information
