Congratulations!!! You and your partner have been chosen by the Egyptian Tourist Bureau to design a brochure about ancient or modern Egypt. You will use the Internet to locate information. Using Pixie, you will create illustrations and finally, you'll put together your brochure with Word or Publisher. Proceed carefully because many first-time tourists are counting on you. Good luck!

Instructions:
1. With your partner, choose one of the following topics for your brochure.

• Egyptian Hieroglyphics (what are they? why were they used? samples of hieroglyphics)
  
• Walk Like An Egyptian (daily life in ancient Egypt, clothing, food, families, boys and girls, school)
  
• Fast Facts About Egypt (geography, language spoken, famous places, interesting tidbits)
  
• Is It A Cube, A Sphere, No, It's a Pyramid (what do they look like? where are they? why were they built? who built them?)

2. Use the following websites to locate at least 6-10 facts about your topic. Record those facts on your fact sheet. They do not need to be complete sentences at this point.

3. Now that you've got your 6-10 facts, you need to create 3 illustrations in Pixie. One illustration will be for the cover of your brochure. After you have created each one, you will copy them into a Word word processing document.

4. Using your fact sheet, fill in the text of your brochure in the second and third column. Remember, it is important to use complete sentences and proper punctuation now. Choose at least 5 facts to use. You may change the font and size but it should be readable and no larger than 18 point.

5. Design the cover of your brochure on column 1. It should include:

• Title (must show that the brochure is about Egypt)
  
• Illustration
  
• Byline (both your name and your partner's)

5. Save your document. Name it "brochure."

 Hints for researching from the internet and completing brochure:

• Don't forget to fill out your name and your partner's name on the fact sheet. Write in your topic and classroom teacher.
• Use your fact sheet to record facts, don't rely on your memory.
• Make a note of where you found the information (ie. Pyramids 1) in case you need to go back there to recheck something.
• Keep your illustrations small when working with them in Pixie. Otherwise, after you resize them, they may not look right.
• Don't forget to use spellcheck before printing.
• Save your work.

Conclusion

By the end of this project, you will have learned many things.

• Brochures are fast and easy to make.
• The Internet is a great place to find all sorts of information.
• Navigating from website to website is easy, especially when the sites are bookmarked for you.
• You can import drawings from one program into another one. (You used Pixie for drawing and Word for writing.)
• Margins and print orientation can be changed for a document.
• You will have worked with columns and the toolbar in a wordprocessing document.
• Hopefully, you will also have learned a lot about ancient and modern Egypt.