Find and Save Owl Pictures

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   Step 1: Open your Picture Collection

   This is where all your owl pictures will live. Press Make a copy to get your own.

   • SLIDESMy Owl Picture Collection (opens in a new tab)Google Slides copyPress "Make a copy" to get your own collection.
   • PPTMy Owl Picture Collection (PowerPoint)PowerPoint fileUse this one if you work in PowerPoint.

   Change the name of your copy to your owl’s name and your name. Keep this page open too!
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   Step 2: Know what you are looking for

   Your collection has six boxes. Each box wants a different kind of picture.

   1. My owl up close: a big, clear picture of its face and body.
   2. My owl at home: the kind of place where it lives, like a forest or a desert.
   3. A range map: a map that shows where in the world your owl lives.
   4. What my owl eats: a mouse, a rabbit, a bug, or whatever your owl hunts.
   5. My owl flying or hunting: a picture with action!
   6. My choice: anything cool about your owl.

   Pick pictures that are big and sharp, not blurry. A small picture gets fuzzy when it is made bigger.
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   Step 3: Look for pictures

   Start with these sites. A grown-up helper can sit with you.

   • All About Birds (opens in a new tab)Click your owl. Look at its photos, and find the range map on its page.
   • Audubon: 13 Photos of Owls That Will Make You Shriek With Delight (opens in a new tab)Dramatic photos. It does not have every owl.
   • San Diego Zoo Kids (opens in a new tab)Photos of many animals. Search for your owl.

   If you cannot find the pictures you need for your page on these sites, work with your teacher, parent or guardian to do a web search for them. Please do not search on your own.

   • Library books and class books can be scanned or photographed with your teacher’s help.
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   Step 4: Put the picture in your collection

   Choose one way. Each way ends with the picture sitting in one of your boxes.

   Video coming soonFinding, saving and crediting a picture

   • With a grown-up helper: Insert, then Image, then Search the web. Click a picture, then press Insert.
   • Copy and paste: right-click the picture and choose Copy image. Click your slide and press Control and V (Command and V on a Mac).
   • Save it, then upload it: right-click the picture, choose Save image as, then in Slides go to Insert, Image, Upload from computer.

   On a Chromebook, right-click means tap the touchpad with two fingers.
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   Step 5: Make it fit the box

   Drag the picture over a dotted box. Drag a corner dot to make it bigger or smaller. If it is too big, use Crop.

   • Drag a CORNER dot, not a side, so your owl does not get squished.
   • Crop: click the picture, then click the Crop button and drag the black handles to trim the edges.
   • Put the picture on top of the box so the dotted line is hidden.
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   Step 6: Write where you found it

   Under each picture, click the words Where I found it and type the name of the website or book.

   Real authors always say where their pictures came from. You can too!

   • A website: type the name, like All About Birds or Audubon.
   • A book: type the title of the book.
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   Step 7: Save a range map

   Find the range map on your owl’s page. Take a picture of your screen to save it.

   • Chromebook: press Control, Shift and the Show windows key. Drag a box around the map.
   • Windows: press the Windows key, Shift and S. Drag a box around the map.
   • Mac: press Shift, Command and 4. Drag a box around the map.
   • Then paste it into your collection with Control and V.

   Ask a grown-up helper to help you with the keys the first time.

Got your pictures?

Now plan what goes in each panel of your page.

Open my Page Plan Back to All About Owls

Grown-ups: how did this activity go? Send us feedback

For teachers

The Picture Collection is a one-slide organizer: six labeled frames (close-up, habitat, range map, prey, action, choice) with a "Where I found it" line under each, plus a second slide for extras. A video spot (pictures-part1.mp4) shows how to find, save and credit a picture; it says Video coming soon until the file is uploaded. Students collect first, then build their page from the collection. The three ways to add a picture are all listed because school devices differ. See the notes for teachers and parents about picture rights and credit.

Read the full notes for teachers and parents