Interactive Bulletin Boards
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Bulletin Boards for Interactive Learning
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 spell.
Bulletin Boards that invite interaction make available another learning space within the classroom.
Interactive Bulletin Board Themes
Bulletin Boards in Alphabetical Order
Apples in the Tree Bulletin Board
Read Well Kindergarten Program
An apple die can make creating a bulletin board featuring apples as simple as Apple Pie! Make enough apples for the number of children you are teaching and then make a few more in case of mistakes.1. Children can make apple people showing how they are feeling with a happy face on one side and a sad or angry face on the other.
2. Make apples to show attendance. Each child makes an apple face and then writes their name on a bowtie attached to the bottom of each apple. Each morning the children who are in class place their apples in the apple tree. At the end of the day all the apple can be picked and placed in a basket by classroom helpers.
3. Make apples with the answers to math problems. Make leaves with numbers to solve the problems. Children place the leaves on the apples to show which numbers add up to the number on the apple.
4. Create an apple bulletin board for the Apples in the Treetops Unit Study
Photo Credit: Apple Die Template
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- Read Well Program - A to Z Teacher Stuff Forums
- In week 1 they draw a picture of themselves on an apple cut-out. The next day they learn a song called "At the Apple Tree" and they take turns putting their apples on the apple tree in your room.
- Read Well Kindergarten
- Integrates song, movement, rhyme, poetry, trade books, and art projects into daily lessons.
- Attendance Apples Bulletin Board
- Leave some room at the bottom and make the apples movable. Children that are in class put their apples in a basket near a cutout of the teacher. Apples of children who are absent are left on the tree.
Apple Cutouts for Bulletin Boards
Beaver Pond Bulletin Board
Create a Bulletin Board for Paddy the Beaver
Photo Credit: Land of the Silver Birch, Home of the Beaver
on Flickr, Creative Commons
The Adventures of Paddy Beaver
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Paddy the Beaver is a fictional story with enough realism to teach children about the lives of beavers and the animals they share the forest with.
Birthday Fruits Bulletin Board
1. Prepare the bulletin board with columns for the twelve months.
2. Ask each student to bring a cut out of a fruit that is available in the month of their birthday and write their name and birth date in it.
3. Pin each cut out in the column of that month.
4. To make it more interactive you can use the data to make up mathematical word problems or give it a more game-like twist with a month die.
2. Ask each student to bring a cut out of a fruit that is available in the month of their birthday and write their name and birth date in it.
A good resource to find seasonal fruits and vegetables classified by state is The Sustainable Table.
3. Pin each cut out in the column of that month.
4. To make it more interactive you can use the data to make up mathematical word problems or give it a more game-like twist with a month die.
- Birthday Fruits Bulletin Board Idea
- Bulletin Board Ideas For Teachers for kids of different age groups and for different subjects from It's School Time.
- Polyhedral Dice from Great Hall Games
- Month Die - Have the months spelled out on this 12 sided die. Perhaps determine the MONTH of certain events happening during a game.
Bulletin Boards that Pop
Watch this very artistic teacher create a bulletin board that stands out and catches your attention. How could you use this information to create your own interactive bulletin board that pops?
Calendar Time
Interactive Bulletin Boards for Calendar Time reinforce and provide daily review of math skills. This is a technique I first discovered after learning about Mary Lorton Baretta and the Math Their Way program.
Clothesline Bulletin Board
Interactive Bulletin Boards Idea Books
Photo Credit: Alphabetical Order Bulletin Board
on Flickr, Creative Commons
Make this into an interactive bulletin board use real clothesline and clothespins and your children will be able to take down, rearrange and reorganize the letters into words or put words in ABC order.
Changing Seasons Bulletin Board
1. Cover the bulletin board with brown paper to resemble the earth.
2. Have children mix blue and yellow tempera paint to make green on an easel. After the papers have dried, Cut them and post them to resemble grass and trees.
3. Make and post a couple of children dressed for summer. Change their clothes as the seasons change.
4. Have the children mix yellow and red to create the fall colors. Cut some out as falling leaves and post.
5. Cut out round white paper circles. These are snowballs.
6. Go on a scavenger hunt for winter words. Write one word on each snowball. Post the words on the bulletin board. Try to cover all of the grass and fall leaves with snow.
7. Learn to spell all these winter words. As each word has been mastered by the children, make the words melt away to reveal the springtime grass.
8. Add crocus blossoms with new vocabulary words written on them. Have spring harbingers such as robins fly in with new words.
Chinese New Year Bulletin Board and Dress-Up Center
Bulletin Board for Chinese New Year
Create a bulletin board to represent Chinese New Year. Notice how this bulletin board by Sher includes traditional Chinese clothing as well as items and symbols that represent the Chinese culture. Set up a dress-up area near the bulletin board. Include a mirror and and a place to change. Add a table for tea, a kitchen area, and a tea set.
Be sure to leave room for a dragon dance to entertain those drinking tea.
Photo Credit: Chinese New Year Roleplay Bulletin Board
on Growing, Learning, Laughing - Used by Permission
The Teapot Dragon
Come read the poem of the Teapot Dragon with it's crinkly tail and pincer claws. It sticks out it's tongue and keeps the tea piping hot.The Teapot Dragon is a poem that takes a child from reality to imagination. Start with The Teapot Dragon poem and explore imagery through words. Use those words to...1 point
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Bulletin Board Displays and Roleplay Areas by Sher1 point
Crafty Hand Print Quilts
Bulletin Boards for Daily Interactive Learning
Photo Credit: October Crafty Quilt Bulletin Board
on Crafty Quilts, Used by Permission
Pictures are put up in an ABAB pattern and could be used to Count by Twos.
Each bulletin board uses hand prints that could be used to Count by Fives.
The Winter Bulletin Boards start to have stories that the children have written, inviting everyone to read each other's writing.
The artistry of turning the individual pictures into a quilt evokes the way the class works together to create a united society.
- Crafty Quilts
- Each month Ms. Kimberly's Kindergarteners have fun using hand prints to create "crafty quilts." At the end of the month, these special quilt pieces are placed in the children's kindergarten memory books.
Thank you, Kim, for permission to use your photo.
Estimating Easter Eggs Bulletin Board
Jelly Bean Estimation Bulletin Board
Betcha! Estimating (Mathstart, Level 3)
Make a large jar and fill it with jelly bean shaped papers. Cover the jar with plastic wrap to resemble the glass of a jar. Provide lots of colored papers shaped like jelly beans. Beside the bulletin board, place a jar of jelly beans.
Children estimate the number of jelly beans in the jar, write their estimation on a paper and post on the bulletin board.
Children can change their answers as often as they like. You may want to date and save previous estimates.
Provide many opportunities over time to help children improve their estimation skills.
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Fish Bulletin Board
100th Day of School
- "100th Day of School" project
- Ben's class is having a "100th Day of School" Party on Friday. Their project of the week was to collect 100 things to bring to school. We came up with the display idea together. It was so fun. The "sand" is sesame seeds. :) And I was quite impressed with Ben's groupings & cou
Fishing for a Good Book
Interactive Bulletin Board that recommends a Great Book
We made a similar bulletin board but hung more fishing poles from the ceiling and let the children write the names of their favorite books on paper cutout fish. The fish could be removed and taken to the library by children looking for a great book to read.
- Bateman Library's Book Displays
- Book displays and bulletin boards.
First Lines of Books Bulletin Board
Literacy Bulletin Board
To make this Bulletin Board interactive, have children add quote from their favorite books to the board. They write the name of the book on the back so that others will know which book to read if that quote intrigues them.
The next child who reads that book gets to write their name on the back and the book with the most names after a certain amount of time gets a classroom celebration where students dress as characters in the book and other activities that day relate to the book.
The next child who reads that book gets to write their name on the back and the book with the most names after a certain amount of time gets a classroom celebration where students dress as characters in the book and other activities that day relate to the book.
- First Lines Bulletin Board
- I love doing bulletin boards to promote books. This was an "interactive" bulletin board. The first line of the book was on the front cover - you lift the flap to see the book title and author. My favorite first line: "Countess Judith kept her husband's head in a box." From "
Habitat Bulletin Boards
Learning and Teaching Scotland provides pictures like the Underground Natural habitat above. These illustrations are free for any kind of educational use - whether you are a teacher creating topic worksheets or looking for ideas to spark creative writing, or a pupil who needs illustrations for a presentation or website.
If you make a bulletin board with a Habitat scene such as the one above, children can then begin to help you fill in all of the flora and fauna. Each animal or plant could be attached only at the top with it's name and characteristics written on the back.
Note:Attach in such a way that the words are right side up when lifting the picture.
If you make a bulletin board with a Habitat scene such as the one above, children can then begin to help you fill in all of the flora and fauna. Each animal or plant could be attached only at the top with it's name and characteristics written on the back.
Note:Attach in such a way that the words are right side up when lifting the picture.
- Bulletin Boards of Natural habitats
- Royalty-free colour illustrations of different natural habitats. These are offered free for educational use by Learning and Teaching Scotland.
Homeschooling Interactive Bulletin Board
Most of the ideas here adapt well for homeschooling families. The bulletin board above becomes a daily review of math skills by Counting the fingers by fives, keeping track of the days to reinforce Place Value and a place to post stories that could be used to search for phonics conventions.
- Homeschooling Interactive Bulletin Board
- Math and Language Arts activities can be practiced with this calendar.
Math Calendar
Maybe on of the most interactive bulletin boards that you could have in your classroom is a Math Calendar. Nearly every math concept taught in the early grades can be reinforced daily using a math calendar.
Many of the activities shown on the above calendar come from Mary Baretta Lorton's Math Their Way newsletters.
Oh, The Places You'll Go Bulletin Board
Transportation Bulletin Board
To recreate this bulletin board for younger children, add vehicles and label them. To make it interactive, make each vehicle in the shape of a greeting card. When the front flap is lifted synonyms could be found underneath.
car- automobile, horseless carriage,
truck - lorry, dump truck, crane, 18 wheeler
car- automobile, horseless carriage,
truck - lorry, dump truck, crane, 18 wheeler
- Business Education Bulletin Board Ideas
- Oh, The Places You'll Go.
Tony's students created this board Dr. Suess characters and some FBLA (Future Business Leaders of America) competitive events were added later.
Place Value Bulletin Board
Recycled Art Bulletin Board
Flowering Fields, Including Grey Wagtail, and Various Varieties of Grass and Plants
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One year I started a Frog Pond Theme on the bulletin board but got interrupted before I had a chance to add all the lily pads and Cat-O'-Nine tails. I had left all the materials out along with the scissors and stapler.
When center time came the children spread out across the room to work. What a surprise when I saw two children had taken up the task of finishing the bulletin board. Ever since that day I have always had helpers.
Bulletin Boards can be made from recycled art work. After the children have finished displaying their art work have them add it to the recycle box. Whenever you start a new bulletin board use pieces of paper from the recycle box, cut them to shape and soon the art work has turned into a new masterpiece.
- Butterfly World
- Activity: Students were given symmetrical butterfly halves and worked together to find the matching pair of wings. Facts were written on each set of wings to help students gather information about butterflies. Following are some of the butterfly facts we covered:
Simple Machines Bulletin Boards
Tools for the Handyman Interactive Bulletin Board
- Simple Machines
- This bulletin board invites children to come up and try out the different simple machines. When children are able to interact with objects that demonstrate the concept being taught they are better able to grasp the idea and later on use that information in other situations.
Interactive Bulletin Boards
Teachers are beginning to write books about the wonderful ideas they have for making interactive bulletin boards. Check out some of the best ones:
Interactive Bulletin Boards
Interactive French Lesson Bulletin Board
French Perfume Language<
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To make this perfume poster into an interactive bulletin board:
1. Laminated it.
2 Mounted it on a foam core board,
3. Cut around each of the perfume bottles.
4. Cut a space in the foarm core board behind each of the perfume bottles.
5. Put a paper towel into a very small Ziplock bag with a spice or flavoring in each of the spaces. Attach with Velcro.
6. Write a number on the actual bulletin board in the space behind each perfume bottle and mount a key below the bulletin board.
Children can open each bag and try to guess the smell and then check the key.
- Interactive Bulletin Boards
- INTERACTIVE BULLETIN BOARDS
for SECONDARY SCHOOL MATHEMATICS
Below are interactive bulletin boards prepared by students in my Methods of Teaching Secondary Mathematics class over the past few years. For a larger photo, directions, and a worksheet for each, simply click on the on - Teaching Tips - Classroom Decorations, Teaching Tools, Teacher Resources
- Find simple, creative, and effective teaching tips, including resourceful classroom decorations, teaching tools, & other teacher resources. To learn more, visit TeacherCreated.com or call 1-888-441-4826.
- Bulletin Board Ideas
- The Friday Class is written by Mariam Masood and Fatima Masood, teachers from Dubai. The article appears fortnightly in Young Times magazine, published in Dubai.
Bulletin Board Slideshow
Bulletin Boards
Bulletin Boards and Materials
History of Chalk Boards to White Boards
Erasable Bulletin Boards
- Erasing the Past
- Erasing the Past, Typing the Future:Timeline of the Chalkboards by Jerry Wojenski
Chalkboards arise in U.S. Military schools One of the first schools to use the large chalkboard was West Point Military Academy in New York. Mr. George Baron, an instructor at West Point, incorporated chalk... - Smart Board being used in Classroom
- Interactive Whiteboard
Portable Learning Centers
No one ever has enough wall space but look what this cleaver homeschooling mom did! She turned science boards into portable learning centers that help her children focus on skills being taught while making it possible to quickly and easily turn the classroom back into a dining room
- Portable Circle Time
- Two sided circle time bulletin board.
“Interactive Bulletin Boards augment the learning going on in your classroom.”
Lenses with Interactive Bulletin Boards
Each of these unit studies incorporates interactive bulletin boards. Bulletin boards can be used as independent learning centers for children to practice skills being learned. Create bulletin boards from materials that the children are creating throughout the day and turn them into interactive centers.
Classroom Displays and Bulletin Boards Blog
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The blog has been created to explore and celebrate the use of displays in classrooms all over the world.
Nature Walk Bulletin Board
Photo Credit: Ysgol Ganllwyd School's Nature Walk display at the bus shelter by Eric Jones
Used under creative commons
A bulletin board can depict plants and animals the might be found along the trail. You could make it interactive by using separate pieces of cardboard to post each of the animals. When you lift up each animal you could read facts about that animal's habitat and habits.
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Photo Credit: Hungry Caterpillar display
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Here is a bulletin board for teaching color words.
How do you make your bulletin boards interactive?
Bulletin Boards can be Interactive
Tell us all about your favorite bulletin boards.
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kwhiting644
Jun 22, 2011 @ 1:56 pm | delete
- love this. love this. Especially Very Hungry Caterpillar bulletin board.
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5thingsabout
Mar 22, 2011 @ 1:56 am | delete
- We made a whiteboard bulletin board in our home. A great use is chalkboard or whiteboard paint.
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lindarandall Feb 19, 2011 @ 4:47 pm | delete
- blog rolling and blessed by a squid angel :)
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OhMe Feb 14, 2011 @ 1:09 am | delete
- Great ideas for Interactive Bulletin Boards
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- its amazing
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- Another great learning lens by you. Blessed by a SquidAngel :)
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- Wonder collection of clever ideas for bulletin boards!
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QueSea
Apr 27, 2010 @ 8:14 pm | delete
- These are fun. They stimulate my creativity. I can just imagine how they affect your students (smile). 5*s and added to my favorites
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arncyn
Jan 18, 2010 @ 11:36 am | delete
- What a wonderful way to teach lessons AND personal relations/interaction at the same time. I agree with what everyone wrote, I wish I had a teacher who was as creative and full of fun ideas as you! *blessed*
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Evelyn_Saenz
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- Thank you so much, SquidAngel!
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- I'm glad you found my photo useful for place value :) This is a great page. I might have to blog about it over on the Classroom Displays blog.
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- I agree with Margo; and I wish I had a teacher with awesome ideas like these when I was in school :-)
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Evelyn_Saenz
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- If you only have one bulletin board and need more space, you can use Science Boards or Display Boards. They are portable and add lots more learning space to your classroom.
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- I only have one bulletin board in my room and have to use it to relay current school events. I use posters the way you use bulletin boards.
Thanks for sharing
Lizzy
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- Great Lens Evelyn!
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- You must be the teacher that every parents wants her/his kids to get! *****
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- Adorable lens -- love the Apples in the Tree Bulletin Board !
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- I loved making bulletin boards! Blessing this lens! :-)
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