Transforming Education
Social Awareness Strategies
What are the benefits of developing social awareness? Using the resource, readers learn strategies for fostering civil discourse, creating a participatory classroom, and enhancing family involvement. Scholars also take a personality...
Transforming Education
Growth Mindset Toolkit
A nine-slide presentation provides educators with practical ways they can help young people develop a growth mindset, a key competency in social-emotional learning.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: State Map Poster
This is a project where young scholars 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...
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...
New Zealand Ministry of Education
Nz Ministry of Education: Survival of the Fittest
Students will gather, select, record, interpret, and present information on survivors and their survival strategies gained from reading the novel Hatchet and true life survival biographies. They will produce a piece of comparative...
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...
EL Education
El Education: Revitalize Rochester Poster
After writing a report on the effects of restoring water ways in various cities, students create a poster advertising the presentation of the report to city officials and asking the public to attend in order to learn more about this...
EL Education
El Education: Rock and Mineral Machine Poster
Students complete field observations and work with local geologists to collect rock and complete a lab on rock and mineral testing and identification. Students then invent a fictional machine to identify rocks, and finally they create a...
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...
University of California
The Travels of Ibn Battuta: A Virtual Tour With the 14th Century Traveler
Ibn Battuta was a famous Muslim traveler in the 14th century. He began traveling in 1325 at the age of twenty, first as a pilgrimage to Mecca. But he kept on traveling - for about twenty-nine years. He visited what would today be...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Election Central: Campaign Manager: 60 Second Presidents
In this activity, students watch videos to determine the best characteristics of a president in order to develop a campaign around these traits. Students watch videos of specific presidents and then create campaign posters which reflect...
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...
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...
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.
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.
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...
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.
Huntington Library
Early English Exploration and Settlement of the Colony of Virginia
For 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...
Childnet
Childnet: Digiduck Stories
Engaging online safety stories for young children aged 3-7. The Digiduck collection has been created to help parents and teachers educate children aged 3 - 7 about online safety. The collection includes a ebooks, PDFs, a poster and an...
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,...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: At Home in a Biome
This lesson 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...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Balanced Forces
In this lesson the learners 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...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: The Causes of Pollution
In this lesson plan, 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...
NOAA
Noaa: Who Trashed the Ocean? [Pdf]
Clean up your understanding regarding the effects of polluting the oceans. Create a poster to share your knowledge.