lesson 7 finding backgrounds

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	I wanted to incorporate the Web into this project and I thought it would be fun for the students to use the Internet to get backgrounds for their fairy tales. All of the students loved looking for images on Google. A few students asked if they could draw their own backgrounds. Some students used the images they found as "props" for their characters instead of backgrounds.
Lesson 1. Transforming	Go to: www.Google.com Click on the tab for "images" Type a word for the image you need. This student was looking for a castle.			Lesson 5. Creating a character template
Lesson 2. What is a fairy tale? What are the characteristics?	There are two ways to move an image from the web to your Painting document. Holding your mouse on the selected image, drag the selected picture to an opened painting document. Sometimes it is necessary to use an alternate method. Hold your cursor over the selected image. When a menu appears, click on "Copy this image". Then move to your painting document and "Paste". Save as Student's name/Background			Lesson 6. Transforming characters
Lesson 3. Writing our fairy tales How can we transform a tale?	To enlarge a background, use the same steps used for transforming an image. Select the area with the dotted box, place your cursor in one of the corners and drag diagonally down.			Lesson 7. Finding backgrounds on the Internet.
Lesson 4. Editing our tales	Index	9. Helpful Web sites	See our fairy tales	Lesson 8. Putting the pages together