Posters Enhance Teaching
Posters are colorful and inspiring works of art that draw student's attention to the subject being taught. Posters don't have to be just wall decoration. Posters can be used to highlight vocabulary being taught, visually organize student's work or be turned into learning games that help to teach and reinforce skills being taught in the classroom.
When looking for posters for teaching, I look for large pictures that can easily be seen across the room. I look for colors that fit the unit theme being studied. Finally I look for ones that can be turned into games for use in learning center so that the students can continue to work on those skills independently or in small groups.
The David Macaulay Teaching Poster
- David Macaulay Teaching Poster
- The Florence Griswold Museum commissioned award-winning illustrator and author David Macaulay to illustrate the renovated Griswold House for the Museum's first teaching poster.
The poster is designed for teachers to hang in their classroom to teach about the Florence Griswold House, the Boardinghouse of the Lyme Art Colony.
The back of the poster features curriculum information for teachers and activity sheets for students.
Posters for Teaching the Alphabet
- Butterfly Alphabet
For 24 years Kjell Sandved traveled through fields & rainforests with a camera, finding a second, or rather the first, nature's own Alphabet. The real language of love and dreams on the wings of butterflies!
Activities to Accompany Alphabet Posters
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Word Walls and Pointers
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Word walls are a collection of words for beginning readers to use to promote learning in reading and writing. WordWalls are most effective when the children help to generate them. This lens will point out various types of WordWalls used in classroom...
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Activities for Learning the Alphabet
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One of the first things that a child learns when are the letters of the alphabet. The activites in this lens are ones that my children and the children I have taught either in a classroom or while homeschooling have found to be fun and engaging. By...
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Eating Alpha-Bits Letters
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Alpha-Bits Have been teaching Kids to read for years. I remember the first time I heard of them in the early 1960's and how much fun it was to make words in my cereal. Then the other day my 13 year old asked for cereal with letters. Oh, you mean, Al...
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Penmanship: The Art of Teaching Handwriting
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As a child I remember Mrs. Thompson, my first grade teacher, gently putting her hand over mine and guiding me in forming the letters. We wrote on green lined paper with dotted lines down the middle. After we had practiced for a whole week we were all...
Gould Library Wall Charts
- Carleton College: Wall Charts: Wall Charts Resources
- The wall charts in this exhibition all come from the collection of the Biology Department at Carleton College. Wall charts, along with magic lantern slides, were once a staple of classroom instruction here at Carleton. By the 1970s new technologies - including modern slide and, later, digital projectors - took the place of wall charts in classroom instruction.
Fortunately, Alison Unger, Biology Stockroom Supervisor, took care to safely tuck away Carleton's collection of wall charts in a storage closet. Featuring a small selection of charts from the department's collection, this exhibition offers a unique opportunity to see what the study of biology looked like over the past century.
Posters to Accompany the Frog Unit Study
Frog Poster
FR for Frog
Buy at AllPosters.com
While studying frogs I like to post words that begin with the fr- blend. As we discover more fr- words, the children write them on papers cut in the shape of frogs and post them all around the fr- for Frog poster.
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All About Frogs: Games, Activities and Unit Studies
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Children learn best when engaged in hands-on, creative learning projects that excite and keep them focused. A frog theme lends itself to just that type of experience. Here you will find a collection of lenses leading to games, learning activities and...
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Frog Unit Study: Hopping to Learn
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Take trips to the frog pond. Become a frog and play games and sing songs, gobble up the insect words and swat the fly verbs. This lens will give you dozens of ideas, resources, hints and tricks to create frog-themed activities for both homeschool fam...
Reptile Poster that pops open with Information!
Interactive Reptile Poster
Buy at AllPosters.com
To make this reptile poster pop:
1. Lay the poster down on a cutting board.
2. Use a very sharp Exacto knife to cut 3/4 of the way around each reptile.
3. Fold each of the pictures back slightly and write it's name behind it.
Children can go up to the board, fold back the picture to help with spelling the words.
Reptile Poster Activities
Learn more about the Reptiles in this Poster
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Alligator Pie
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Alligator Pie is a great poem for introducing the alligator theme. Use it in a reading chart and then go on to learn about the alligators. Alligators bring us eye to eye with the watery, muddy world of the swamp. Write a poem or explore an alligato...
Poster of your Water Footprint
- How Much Water Do You Use?
- As we become more and more aware that we may be using water at an unsustainable pace, the idea of water footprints-the amount of water an individual uses-is becoming more common.
Water Poster related Activities
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Global Warming for children
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For young children to understand a concept like Global Warming it needs to be taught through hands-on observable experiments. Make a terrarium with falling rain. Melt ice and watch the water level of a lake rise. Observe what happens when plants rec...
Posters for Teaching about the National Parks
The Art of National Park Posters
- National Park Posters - WPA Posters / Prints - Ranger Doug's Enterprises
- Between 1935 and 1943 the WPA's Federal Art Project printed over two million posters in 35,000 different designs to stir the public's imagination for education, theater, health, safety, and travel. Only a few are still in existence. Ranger Doug reproduces them and offers them for sale.
- The Parks Company Store
- National Park posters in "Retro-style"
Interactive Teaching Poster Ideas
Teaching Posters on the Interactive Bulletin Board
Start with a blank bulletin board and add paper behind it to make a blank canvas. Add a poster in the middle on a subject that you are planning on teaching. A board can be added around the outside with colors that compliment the poster and a motif that goes with the theme of the unit study.
Leave space around the poster for vocabulary words, student's artwork and writing.
Think of ways to make the bulletin board interactive such as having the children's names written on the backs of their poems and having the children guess who wrote each one before looking on the back.
Turning the activity into a game helps to create more excitement in the activity and gets the children discussing the topic of the unit study.
Posters for Interactive Teaching
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Take a poster of the human skeleton, laminate it and cut it into pieces. Children love putting puzzles together. Tactile learners will focus on the information written on the poster when given the opportunity to handle and move the pieces around.
Interactive Bulletin Boards
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Interactive Bulletin Boards
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Bulletin Boards can be more than just decoration on the wall. By making it interactive, a bulletin board can become another center in your classroom. You will find bulletin boards to teach math at calendar time and word walls for learning to read and...
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Interactive Bulletin Boards for Teaching
Turning Posters into Interactive Bulletin Boards
Posters can be the start to making interactive bulletin boards that engage children in active learning. Many teachers are finding that posters offer one more way of drawing attention to key skills being taught and when used in a variety of ways, posters can enhance the learning and retention of information being taught to students.
In these tough economic times, where art programs are being cut, posters bring art to those children who learn best visually while exposing all of the children to a variety of artistic styles. At some time during a unit study, I like to talk about the artist who made the poster. We look at the colors, shapes and techniques used to make the artwork. Later I provide materials for imitating the poster's style in the Art Center so that children have the opportunity to try out the new techniques to illustrate what they have learned..
More Ideas for Using Posters for Teaching
French Perfume Language Giclee Print
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This poster has names for various perfumes in French. This poster would work well in a French class or when reading a book like Fancy Nancy sparks some interest in learning French.
With two laminated copies of this poster you could cut them up into cards for playing Go Fish or Concentration. Card games are a fun way to practice new vocabulary while using the new words in complete sentences.
- Educational Poster Teaching Ideas
- Dozens of ideas for using posters for teaching from riddles and vocabulary building to writing plays and studying art appreciation.
Books with Ideas for Interactive Bulletin Boards
Posters in the Center of the Teaching Board
Evelyn's Hands-On Learning Blog
Posters can be used in any Unit Study to enhance learning. Teachers often find that posters draw attention to the topic being studied. My Hands-on Learning Blog points to many other activities to promote creative active learning where posters enhance the teaching and learning experience.
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- Part-time return to real life. Working with posters while kids watch the kids' morning in tv, and teaching tonight. Some baking in between.
Chat about Teaching with Posters
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- ElizabethJeanAllen ElizabethJeanAllen Nov 25, 2009 @ 5:59 pm
- I have several posters on my walls at school, but they've put limits on how much of the wall can be covered now. My room looks rather plain now.
Thanks for sharing
Lizzy
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- ajgodinho ajgodinho Aug 20, 2009 @ 10:45 pm
- Great lens - yes, posters are a great way to teach because they are very visual!
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- groovyoldlady groovyoldlady Feb 7, 2009 @ 4:47 pm
- We MAKE posters as well as using purchased ones.
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- Serenity_Prayer_Gifts Serenity_Prayer_Gifts Jan 15, 2009 @ 8:40 am
- Beautiful Work! Thanks for sharing! :-)
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- ElizabethJeanAllen ElizabethJeanAllen Jan 5, 2009 @ 5:08 pm
- Great lens!
Thanks for sharing. I have some posters in my classroom, but I need to get more.
Lizzy
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- Evelyn_Saenz Evelyn_Saenz Jan 1, 2009 @ 1:27 pm | in reply to kiwisoutback
- Just what I was thinking. These posters would make great gifts for teachers and homeschoolers as well.
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- kiwisoutback kiwisoutback Dec 31, 2008 @ 3:45 pm
- Great work, I lensrolled it to my teacher gift lens!
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- EverythingMouse EverythingMouse Dec 22, 2008 @ 9:13 pm
- As always a great homeschool resource. I use posters quite a bit too - my favorite is the map of the world as I base so much of my teaching around geography. I have learned a lot too!
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- ClassroomCanada ClassroomCanada Dec 21, 2008 @ 9:48 am
- Great lens! Thanks for sharing.
About the Author
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Evelyn Saenz: Lensography of a Teacher
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My passion is teaching and finding ways to teach children in fun, hands-on, creative ways. The unit studies I make on Squidoo reflect my view that learning should be integrated and no skills should be taught in isolation. I believe that each topic s...
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