Hilltop Elementary School is in the of Glen Burnie, Maryland



LEARN TO COPY & PASTE!

Create a page for your dinosaur book.


Please ask your teacher to print these directions for you.
OR
Your teacher may want to give you these directions,
step by step.

1. Open a new document in WORD.
2. Type your name.
3. Minimize your WORD document.
4. Click "Science Fun: Dinosaur Facts" under "Internet Links."
5. Select one of the dinosaurs by clicking on its name.
6. Do a RIGHT mouse click on the picture of the dinosaur & select COPY.
7. MAXIMIZE your WORD document and go to EDIT & select PASTE.
(Is that COOL or what?)

8. Now MAXIMIZE the Internet page about the dinosaur & read the facts.
9. Choose a fact to share in your book.
HIGHLIGHT that fact.
COPY that fact by doing a RIGHT mouse click & selecting COPY
or by going up to EDIT and selecting COPY.
10. MAXIMIZE your WORD document and PASTE your fact.
You can do a RIGHT MOUSE click & select PASTE or go to EDIT and select PASTE.
11.
Place "QUOTATION MARKS"
at the beginning & end
of your quoted fact.

12. MAXIMIZE the Internet page about the dinosaur again.
13. HIGHLIGHT the URL in the white rectangle at the top of the page.
COPY the URL by doing a RIGHT mouse click & selecting COPY or by going to EDIT & COPY.
14. MAXIMIZE your WORD document and PASTE the URL.
You can do a RIGHT MOUSE click & select PASTE or go to EDIT and select PASTE.
This will let people know
where you got your information & picture.
It is called your CITATION.

15. Your teacher will tell you what she wants you to type next to the URL.
She may want you to type:
Retrieved from:
... and the day's date.
She may want you to type another fact in your own words.
16. Check your paper to see that you have:
____ your name
____ a picture of a dinosaur
____ a fact about the dinosaur
____ quotation marks around your fact
____ the URL from the Internet page
____ what your teacher asked you to type next to the URL
17. Ask you teacher to help you print a LANDSCAPE page of your WORD DOCUMENT.
Now you have a page to put in your dinosaur book!








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