Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: State Map Poster
This is a project where students pick a state, study its landforms and data about its geology, and produce a poster that outlines how the state's geography evolved over time. An example of such a poster is provided on a downloadable...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Designing Effective Poster Presentations
Contains plans for six or seven lessons that teach young scholars to create and present effective poster presentations. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to PDF handouts and sites used in the...
Better Planet Productions
Earth Care: Reduce Your Ecological Footprint Poster Project
An assignment for students to create a poster that encourages people to reduce their ecological footprints. While it says it's for intermediate grades and up, this activity could easily be done with junior grades as well. There are links...
EL Education
El Education: Alphabet Poster
This poster of the alphabet was created by kindergarten students from the College School in St. Louis, Missouri, and combines formal lettering with student drawings. Each student picked a word that started with a letter and drew a...
EL Education
El Education: Class Portrait Poster
Kindergarten students at the College School in St. Louis, Missouri, created this over-sized poster of individual student self-portraits. The portraits were part of an investigation of the students in the class- their similarities and...
EL Education
El Education: Calligraphy/name Posters
9th grade students from Meadow Brook High School in Chesterfield County, VA, created posters of their first names using decorative, self-selected fonts, as part of a project on identity. The product's dimensions were 11 by 17 inches.
EL Education
El Education: Personal Goals Poster
Students create posters to show their personal learning goals for the school year. A digital photograph, a self portrait, and goals of parents are also included on each poster.
EL Education
El Education: Self Portrait Poster
Students create self-portraits which are then cut and pasted into one classroom collage.
EL Education
El Education: Willie Mays Poster
A colored pencil portrait of Willie Mays created by a 6th grade student at Shutesbury Elementary School in Shutesbury, Massachusetts. This original artwork provides exemplary work to which other students may aspire.
Other
Aboriginal Language: Mi'kmaq Talking Posters
Atlantic Canada's First Nations Help Desk has created a website with the hopes of keeping their culture and language as a strong presence in Canada. From downloadable posters, to songs, vocabulary lessons and even a pronunciation guide,...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Design Step 3: Brainstorm Possible Solutions
Brainstorming is a team creativity activity that helps generate a large number of potential solutions to a problem. In this activity, students participate in a group brainstorming activity to generate possible solutions to their...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: American Literature: Modernism: The Yellow Wallpaper
This lesson focuses on Charlotte Perkins Gilman and her short story "The Yellow Wallpaper." It provides background on Gilman including her belief that women should work outside the home and be financially independent. It provides a link...
Texas House of Representatives
Texas House of Representatives: Kids' House (Grds. 1 3)
The Texas Legislature has created a poster about Texas state government designed to capture the interest of young learners. Students can find out about the people, processes, and places of state government in Texas.
Huntington Library
Early English Exploration and Settlement of the Colony of Virginia
In this lesson, 5th graders learn about the individuals and groups who first founded the different colonies in America and what their motivations were. Students participate in a reader's theater activity, create a poster that would...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Balanced Forces
In this lesson the students will learn the scientific definition of force. The students will see different examples of forces on an object and will gain an understanding that there are at least two forces acting on an object at all...
PBS
Pbs: The Roman Empire of the 1st Century: Getting to Know the Emperors of Rome
In this lesson plan, students will discuss the merits of heredity rule. After using various games, features, and video clips from the Web site, students should have learned basic information about each of nine featured emperors. Students...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: The Causes of Pollution
In this lesson, the students will identify the types of pollution found in communities by viewing a video. After discussing the types of pollution, the students will discuss ways pollution can be controlled. Students will also explain...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Safety Precautions for Cosmetology
Students will work together to make a list of safety precautions and then individually each student will create a poster depicting one or more of the safety precautions.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Library of Congress Solitaire
After viewing a tutorial of the Outline and Call Numbers of the LC Classification system, students will create posters using a picture or graphic to identify the 21 general subject areas. Students then visit a college library online to...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Historical Influences on Morality: A Basis for Literary Study
Using this PDF lesson plan, students will get a general overview of the historical span of philosophical thought and how it may have been a product or reaction to the time period. Students will research philosophies and time periods...
PBS
The War: Waste Helps the Enemy
At the online companion site of the PBS documentary series "THE WAR," view a recycling poster created by Vanderlaan and produced by the Douglas Aircraft Company.
Kinder Art
Kinder Art: Henri Rousseau Fantasy Jungle (Lesson Plan)
KinderArt provides a site with information on how to teach students art techniques. Students learn to recognize and identify foreground, midground and background. They also create a stylized drawing using simple shapes as well as...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: The Magic of Water
Young scholars will use the Internet to learn about the water cycle by accessing various websites. Students will create a document including pictures relating their knowledge about water and the water cycle.
EL Education
El Education: 1 10 Book
This is a number book created by kindergarten students; the numbers are both numerals and words and are illustrated with the correct number of objects to represent the number. Originally, these pages were created and hung around the...