Using Microsoft Paint and Office 2007

Graphing Pictures on the

Coordinate Plane

Go to Microsoft Paint

From the Edit menuselect Paste From...

Select the

picture you

want to drawand

click on Open.

Click on Start and bring up MS Word.

From the Insert menu

select Table .

Try 35 columns and 30 rows.

From the View menu selectZoom.

Try 170%.

The idea is to fill your screen with the grid...

before you click Control-Print Screen on the

keyboard...which places your grid on

the clipboard.

Restore Microsoft Paint

Select Transparency Selection from the Select

menu.

Select Paste from the Edit menu.

Highlight points with integral coordinates, i.e., are at gridline intersections.

Highlight points with integral coordinates, i.e., are at gridline intersections.

•Open a new worksheet in Microsoft Excel

Looks like this

Enter all the coordinates of the

gridded picture into the Excel document

SAVE YOUR EXCEL

DOCUMENT!

Highlight the coordinates

From the Insert ribbon, go to Charts

Select X-Y Scatter Chart Type

Select Scatter with Straight Lines

and Markers

Results should look similar to this, but more

importantly, like the original

picture

Acitivity adapted from www.colin.edu/gedonline