Downloading Instructions
The person downloading these documents for you (downloading is transferring the documents to your own computer so you can print and use them) needs to have a broadband internet connection, ideally connected to a high-speed color printer.
Quite
a few of these documents are PDF files that contain graphics. The documents in color are highlighted in yellow
below. To download PDF files you need the software program Adobe Acrobat on
your computer. If you don’t have Acrobat, it can be easily
downloaded for free (in about 10 minutes if you have a broadband internet
connection) from Abobe's
download site.
These
documents appear as links (like
"Adobe's download site" in the previous sentence) on the list of
materials you will need for each lesson. For instance, to download Lesson
#1, start by clicking the blue underlined link labeled “Lesson #1 Lesson Plan.”
First print a copy of the Lesson Plan itself. (It’s easy
to forget to print it.) Then, click the links in the Materials Needed
section to download the documents for that lesson.
There
are two ways to do this:
The quickest method is to download a compressed archive file containing all of the files for a specific lesson. These can be downloaded from the Zip File link (if your computer uses windows) or the Stuffit File link (if you use Macintosh) listed in the bottom the Materials Section of each Lesson Plan.
With respect to downloading lesson materials, in many cases you will have the choice of downloading a Microsoft Word file or a PDF file. The advantage of downloading a MS Word file (assuming you have MS Word) is that you can make changes to the downloaded prior to printing as appropriate. If you have an older version of MS Word, however, you may not be able to open and/or print the document. For the compressed archive files, you will have the choice of 1) a compressed file containing MS Word and PDF files or 2) a compressed file containing only PDF files.