US National Archives
Docsteach: Compare Wwi Posters Urging Americans to Conserve Food for War Effort
Students will speculate why the U. S. Food Administration created posters urging Americans to conserve wheat in multiple languages and what techniques the administration used to appeal to citizens.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Poetry Slam
Students will locate a poem of their choice from a designated website to interpret. Students will then search the Internet for performances of the poem they select. In addition to creating a written interpretation of the poem, including...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: As Large as Life a Poster of a Human Body System
This is a student led exploration of the systems of the human body through art and self-expression. Groups will cooperatively develop a poster, the size of a fifth-grade student, and will accurately depict the assigned system of the...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Novel Study Independent Reading
Students will choose a novel from a teacher-created reading list. After reading their choice novel, students will prepare a 1-1/2 to 2 minute multimedia presentation to "sell" other students on the novel. In addition, students will...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Teaching Art With Picture Books
Lesson where students learn about Eric Carle, create an online Project Poster about him, and create a collage using his style of illustrations. Students will discuss their art in small groups using vocabulary learned during the lesson.
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NOAA
Noaa: The Ocean Drugstore [Pdf]
Learn how organisms living in the oceans may help people cure diseases. Create a poster to display what you learn.
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Gilder Lehrman Institute: History Now: Perspectives on the Trail of Tears
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, student groups will design and create a poster containing facts about the Trail of Tears as well as a collage and concluding statement expressing the group's feelings about the event.
National Geographic
National Geographic: American Genius: Perseverance
Students investigate the importance of failure to the process of innovation by investigating several items that were invented by accident. They share one "failure to success" story by creating a 3-panel comic strip poster, and then write...
US National Archives
Docsteach: Uncle Sam and the American Diet
In this activity, students will closely examine two food nutrition guideline posters from the USDA to determine the government's purpose in creating such guidelines and how they have changed over time. Students will also question how...
Other
Milwaukee Art Museum: You Can't Sell This Thing
Introduce learners to new product trademarks, logos, packaging, and advertising. Teams of students will design and create a logo or trademark, packaging box, and poster for original products.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Foss Lifeboat Investigation
The second of a lesson series contains an activity where students choose a lifeboat's variable to investigate, plan an experiment based on the variable they have chosen, and then test the variable. Upon completion of their experiment,...
Science Struck
Science Struck: Simple Ideas for Your Kid's Solar System Project
Provides detailed instructions for how to help a student make a solar system model, and additional suggestions for making a constellation poster, making a model showing phases of the moon, and creating a solar system model to scale.
Other
Keith Haring Foundation: Dance Party
A lesson plan for Grade 5 where they look at Keith Haring's Dance series and create a poster based on it.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: At Home in a Biome
This lesson plan allows students to study and learn the names and characteristics of Earth's six major biomes. The biomes are introduced with a slideshow presentation. A paper-folding poster activity gives students the opportunity to...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Inner and Outer Planets of the Solar System
In this science instructional activity students will work collaboratively to learn and introduce the eight planets, sizes, characteristics, and their order. They will use size comparisons, research a planet, design a poster and create a...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Magnet Mania
Students will discover the power of magnets through this interactive instructional activity. First, students will participate in a virtual field trip. Afterward, students will create electronic posters about magnets using information...