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Picture Set Inquiry Lesson 1: Creating a Printable Page of Photos
Introduction
Picture sets and graphic organizers can be used very effectively to activate background knowledge and
stimulate critical thinking. However, it does take a bit of time to find and create the picture sets. This tutorial
will show you some shortcuts to make the material preparation a little easier.
This tutorial assumes…
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The Word program is installed on your computer. Most versions work in a similar way.
You have already searched for and downloaded a folder of pictures to use as per instructions in the
companion tutorials Photos from the Internet: Public Domain and Creative Commons and Photos
from the Internet: Downloading and Editing.
You have print capability, preferably colour.
Learning Objectives
Completion of this tutorial will give you experience with the following:
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Formatting a page in Word: margins, paper size, orientation
Transferring photos from a folder to a Word document.
Moving photos within a Word document to arrange them on a page.
Changing photo attributes such size and rotation.
Printing the page of photos.
Case Study
Laura is a grade 7 teacher who is beginning to teach a unit on Egypt. She plans to use a set of 6 photos to
activate the students’ background knowledge and assist them in coming up with some “big questions” which
will form the basis of future study in the class. She chooses the photos strategically to elicit big questions such
as “How were the ancient Egyptians able to build structures such as pyramids, the sphinx, and obelisk without
modern technology” and “Why did they build these structures?” The photos are the Cheops pyramid in Egypt,
the Luxor Hotel in Las Vegas, the Sphinx, Mt. Rushmore, the twin Obelisks at Luxor Egypt, the CN tower in
Toronto. The students’ first task will be to put the photos into pairs and explain why they have chosen to pair
the photos that way. Their second task will be to record similarities/differences and “big questions” on a graphic
organizer. A second picture set containing 3 more pictures may be added to stimulate additional thinking:
construction of the Luxor Hotel, construction of Mt. Rushmore, and construction of the CN Tower. Laura
enlists the help of her SET-BC consultant in preparing the page of photos for printing and the graphic organizer
for the lesson.
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Creating a Page of Photos for Printing
Although you can print photos individually, this
wastes quite a bit of paper and colour printing is
expensive. Here’s how you can create a page
containing multiple photos for printing.
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Open a new blank Word document.
On the Page Layout Tab, click Margins and select
Narrow. This will leave the maximum amount of
room for the photos.
Click the Size Tab and choose Letter or Legal for
paper size depending on how many photos you plan
to add to the page.
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For example, 3 photos 3.5x5 will fit on letter size
paper.
Click the Orientation Tab to choose Portrait if you
want the photos displayed on a page that is
“upright” (longer than it is wide).
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Choose Landscape if you want the photos
displayed on a page that it “sideways” (wider than it
is high).
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After your page is set up, you can simply click, hold
down the mouse button and drag photos from the
folder of photos into the new document.
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Or, right-click the photo you want to add to the page
and choose Copy from the Context Menu.
Right-click in the new document and choose Paste
from Clipboard. The photo should appear in the
new document.
To move the picture around on the page, set Wrap
Text to Tight.
You can now click and drag the photo to any
location on the page.
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Tip: You can access the Wrap Text setting from the
Page Layout Tab at the top, the Wrap Text icon that
appears right next to the photo, or by right-clicking
the photo.
The size of the photo will depend on its original size
and resolution.
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An easy way to re-size the photo is to click once to
select it. Anchor boxes should appear at the
corners and sides. Click, hold down the mouse
button and drag on any of these boxes to make the
picture larger, smaller, narrower, wider, etc.
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If the photo is too large to drag by the corner or if
you want to make your photos all the same size, you
will need to set a custom size.
Select the photo and right-click. Choose Size and
Position and click the Size Tab.
For example, if you wanted all of your photos to be
3.5 x 5 inches, you would type those values in for
Height and Width.
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You also need to click to uncheck the Lock aspect
ratio and Relative to original picture size boxes.
And don’t worry…you can always use the Reset
button in the lower right hand corner of the Size Tab
to change the photo back to its original dimensions.
To fit more photos on a page, you may also want to
rotate them.
You can use the Rotate Symbol at the top of the
photo to rotate the photo into any position.
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Or, click Rotate on the Page Layout Tab and
choose one of the options.
When you have arranged your pictures, choose
Print from the File Menu, choose the number of
copies, and print.
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Don’t forget to Save your file if you plan to use it
again.
Example of a page of photos for printing:
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