State Magazine Project
Microsoft Publisher is a fun program to use when making more creative writing projects. To go along with the State-In-A-Bag Project you are doing for Mrs. Huntington, for the next few classes we will be working on making your own small magazines about your state. You can use your internet research answer to help you with your magazine.
Follow these steps:
Page Two, Top Half: This will be your Table of Contents. It is already filled in form you.
Page Two, Bottom Half:
Page Three, Top Half:
Page Three, Bottom Half:
Page Four, Top Half:
Page Four, Bottom Half:
Page Five, Top Half:
Page Five, Bottom Half:
Page Four, Back Cover
Microsoft Publisher is a fun program to use when making more creative writing projects. To go along with the State-In-A-Bag Project you are doing for Mrs. Huntington, for the next few classes we will be working on making your own small magazines about your state. You can use your internet research answer to help you with your magazine.
Follow these steps:
- From your U: drive open "State Magazine" file. On some of the pages you will see blue boxes and sample text. These are just for reminders of where to put everything and can be replaced.
- Remember to save your work frequently using the same name.
- Go to page 1. This will be the cover of your magazine.
- Include the following items on your cover page:
- Where you see the top blue box, use word art to make a large and creative title for your magazine
- In the bottom blue box put your name on the front cover.
- Find 1 picture to place on your cover that illustrates what your magazine is about. You can place it about where the middle blue box is and remove the blue box.
Page Two, Top Half: This will be your Table of Contents. It is already filled in form you.
Page Two, Bottom Half:
- Change the section title, "Quick Facts," to any color or font you want.
- Fill in the name of the Capital City, Nickname, and Date of Statehood.
- Include one picture in this section.
Page Three, Top Half:
- Change the section title, "Resources," to any color or font you want.
- Write a paragraph about resources in your state.
- Include one picture of resources.
Page Three, Bottom Half:
- Change the section title, "Tourism," to any color or font you want.
- Write a paragraph about tourism in your state. Focus on things you can see there.
- Include one picture of a tourist attraction.
Page Four, Top Half:
- Change the section title, "Geography," to any color or font you want.
- Write a paragraph about the geography of your state.
- Include one picture of your states geography.
Page Four, Bottom Half:
- Change the section title, "Economy," to any color or font you want.
- Write a paragraph about the economy in your state.
- Include one picture of a product produced in your state.
Page Five, Top Half:
- Change the section title, "Sports," to any color or font you want.
- Write a paragraph about sports in your state.
- Include one picture of sports in your state.
Page Five, Bottom Half:
- Include three more pictures in this section.
Page Four, Back Cover
- Place four more pictures on the back cover.
- When you are ready to print your magazine ask Mr. Longard to show you how to print it two sided.
Making a Graphic Organizer in Publisher
Today we are going to use Microsoft Publisher to make a simple graphic organizer that show where we are in relation to our state.
Today we are going to use Microsoft Publisher to make a simple graphic organizer that show where we are in relation to our state.
- Open Microsoft Publisher.
- Start a blank 8.5 x 11 inch landscape (sideways) page. Save the file on your (U:) drive as "Where Are We"
- In the upper-left corner make a text box. Type ‘WHERE WE ARE’ in the text box with a size 36 font.
- Starting in the lower-left corner, draw six circles. Put each circle inside the previous circle. Make each circle a different color.
- Starting at the top along the right side, draw a small text box. Inside the text box type your name in size 14 font.
- Below that draw another text box. Inside that box type your teacher's name and "class" in size 14 font.
- Below that draw another text box. Inside that box type your school name in size 14 font.
- Below that draw another text box. Inside that box type your city name in size 14 font.
- Below that draw another text box. Inside that box type your county name in size 14 font.
- Below that draw another text box. Inside that box type your state name in size 14 font.
- Draw an arrow from your name to the innermost circle of you circles in the lower-left corner.
- Draw five more arrows from the name of the next largest group on the right to the next largest circle in the lower-left corner.
- Save the final copy of your file to your (U:) drive using the same file name.
MS Publisher Valentines Card
- Open Publisher
- Select ‘Greeting cards’ from the list of Publication Types.
- Scroll to ‘holidays’.
- Select a Valentines card style you want to use as your template.
- Select color and font schemes from right sidebar. Try a few.
- Click ‘create’.
- Change and/or add pictures and text; edit at least one item on each page. Don’t be afraid to experiment.
- When you are finished or before the end of class, save. Remember to save it in the following place:
- My Computer
- (U:) drive
- Find the folder with your name on it and save your card in that folder.
- Name your file "Holiday Card." - I will grade it from the copy you save on your U: drive.
- If you want a copy to take home, you can print one copy once you have asked Mr. Longard.