Alternative to the Poster Project
Have your students share the content they have learned in a creative way that will WOW parents and administrators when you display it.
Feeling crafty? Make a quilt...
I must say I have no idea how to sew, yet this project always seems to work (with some crafty parent volunteers). Of course there was that year we did it on paper because no one volunteered. ;-) Still it turned out great, though.
After teaching the students about a topic, have them come up with a symbol for the content, one image that helps them to visualize what it was about.
Project Resources:
Quilt Project Lesson Plan
After teaching the students about a topic, have them come up with a symbol for the content, one image that helps them to visualize what it was about.
Project Resources:
Quilt Project Lesson Plan
Cell Cycle Claymation Project:
Students were placed in groups of three or four and given the challenge to illustrate the steps of the cell cycle/mitosis in a claymation format. Students put the play-doh on the table and took pictures for each movement of the clay they made. The rubric explains that there were at least 30 pictures needed for each stage of the cycle. Once all pictures were taken with the iSight camera on the student computers, the students imported their pictures into iMovie. They changed the length of time each picture showed to 0.1 sec and selected the show "full picture" feature. Students then added titles and iMovie music to their project. The best claymations in each class were uploaded to YouTube.
Project Resources: Claymation Project Rubric |
Carrot Group's Cell Cycle Claymation:
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Green Human
Fern Group's Green Human Prezi Presentation:
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Student's were placed in groups of three or four and were asked this driving question: "Why can't humans make food from sunlight?". The basis of this project was to have students fictionally create a human that is capable of performing photosynthesis. Students had to examine what structures and functions humans have and what structures and functions plants have to perform photosynthesis. They had to figure out a way for the human body to be modified in such a way that it could start to perform photosynthesis just like plants. We discussed the entry event and content rubric so the students would know the requirements of the project. All groups learned how to use Prezi as the presentation format and they used primarypad for researching information and for creating the project storyboard. On presentation day, each group orally presented their Green Human Project idea to the rest of the class with the aid of the Prezi.
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Pages or Microsoft Publisher
Who needs to buy posters when you students can type a document and make it look professionally done? Programs like Mac’s Pages and Microsoft Publisher provide students with ways to present the content on regular paper while including more types of media.
In this example, a student is telling about William Blount, a delegate to the Constitutional Convention. They have images of the delegate, the convention, and the documents he wrote. They have content, citations, images, and it looks pretty!
And it is still a project that can be done with a laptop cart or in a computer lab.
Project Resources:
Constitutional Congress lesson plan
Would also be great to make brochures for countries in Geography.
In this example, a student is telling about William Blount, a delegate to the Constitutional Convention. They have images of the delegate, the convention, and the documents he wrote. They have content, citations, images, and it looks pretty!
And it is still a project that can be done with a laptop cart or in a computer lab.
Project Resources:
Constitutional Congress lesson plan
Would also be great to make brochures for countries in Geography.
Facebook** Project
Using a Keynote slide as a template, students can create their own Facebook** page on their assigned person. My students created a Facebook** page for the cell organelle that they drew at random. Each group had to create a Facebook** post for each of their group members. They had to become that cell organelle and write posts that reflected something that that organelle might say. The best posts showed a relationship between organelles and how they worked together to keep the cell functioning.
Cell Organelle Facebook Project (Keynote) Facebook Project (Keynote)
Cell Organelle Facebook Project (PowerPoint) Facebook Project (PowerPoint)
Cell Organelle Facebook Rubric
Cell Organelle Facebook Project (Keynote) Facebook Project (Keynote)
Cell Organelle Facebook Project (PowerPoint) Facebook Project (PowerPoint)
Cell Organelle Facebook Rubric
They made games that don't need batteries?
Studying a topic where someone is taking a journey? Let the students display their knowledge of the journey and roadblocks and challenges of those involved by making a board game. The students will love getting to play (and grade) each others' games.
Here is one example from my students' project on the Explorations of Lewis and Clark.
Project Resources:
Board Game Lesson Plan
The local pizza restaurants were kind enough to donate boxes for the students to use as both box and board.
Here is one example from my students' project on the Explorations of Lewis and Clark.
Project Resources:
Board Game Lesson Plan
The local pizza restaurants were kind enough to donate boxes for the students to use as both box and board.