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Animals From Around the World
A Copy & Paste Internet Activity

Directions for copying a picture from the internet and pasting it into another document:

To copy a picture from the Web site, place your cursor directly on the picture you wish to copy, right click your mouse key, choose save as in your menu option box, a dialog box will pop up.  You will choose from your list box 3 ½ floppy (A), then click in the name list box and type in the name of the animal you have copied.  Open up your Animals From Around the World Worksheet and place your cursor in the box that you want to place your picture in.  From the menu bar, click insert, then picture, from file.  A dialog box will appear.  You then choose 3 ½ floppy (A) from list box (it will say look in).  A list of pictures will appear.  Choose the picture you wish to paste into your table, then click insert.  The picture should now appear in your table where you had placed your cursor initially.

If you wish to make the picture larger or smaller, left click on the picture and a box with little squares will appear around the it. Place you cursor on one of squares until an arrow appears, then left click your mouse and drag your picture to make it appear the way you want it to.  When you are satisfied with the results, click anywhere outside of the picture.

Assignment 1:
Click on the "Animals From Around the World" worksheet and complete activity by following the directions.  When you have completed the assignment, save it to your 3 ½ floppy (A) and name it Animals_World.

 Animals From Around the World
Happy Hunting!!!

FYI: The fastest way to find a specific topic on any web site is to conduct a search by typing in the name of the topic you want to find.  Not all web sites offer this luxury, so use it when you can.  It will save you a lot of time.
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      Directions for inserting arrows and textboxes withing a document.

With the document open you wish to edit, click the arrow button on the bottom of screen (if there is no arrow, go to view-toolbars-drawing).  After clicking the arrow button, point to where you wish to place the arrow in your document.  Click your left mouse button and drag the arrow to where you want it to point (the location in which your animal can be found).  Adjust the arrow until you have it the way you want it to look (just as you did with adjusting your picture).  Feel free to use as many arrows as you wish to indicate the location of that specific animal's habitat.  Next, click on the text button located on the same toolbar.  It can be found between the oval and the single letter A.  It also has an A but has lines running beside and below it.  Point near your arrow and click your left mouse button and a text box will appear.  Type in the name of the animal that lives at that specific location.  You can also adjust this text box as you did with your picture and arrow until you text appears the way you want it to.

Assignment 2:
Click on the "World Atlas" worksheet and complete the activity by following the directions.  Don't foget to choose File, then Edit Page to type directly on the document.  Save it to your folder and name it World Atlas.

 World Atlas

To assist you in finding the countries these animals are from, click on the mapquest link to get assistance.

 Mapquest