8th Grade Career and Technical Education Posters

Creative Projects in Canva utilizes the free Web 2.0 tool www.canva.com which allows students to create a variety of graphic based projects such as magazine covers, posters, greeting cards, photo collages and lots more. No download is required to use the product, making it easy for teachers who are not able to download software on classroom computers to still give their students a choice in learning.

In these lessons, students are provided with a quick tutorial, as well as links to other resources to help them with their designs. The tutorial is intended to help students get started with the program and then use the resources within the program to refine their creations.

There are three projects included with this lesson to allow the teacher and student a choice in how to demonstrate knowledge of Canva. Use one, all three, or let students choose!

This lesson is great for distance learning/remote learning. You can upload it to your school's learning management system (Google Classroom, Edmodo, Canvas, etc.) or share with students via Google Drive.

Files Included with this Lesson

• Teacher Notes and Resources

• Quick Getting Started Tutorial for Students

• 3 Lessons for Creative Projects with grading rubric including

o Magazine Cover

o Photo Collage

o Poster

Related Products
⭐ Creating Timelines using Tiki-Toki (a free Web 2.0 tool)
⭐ Creative Presentation Projects using Web 2.0 Tool Prezi
⭐ Create a Comic in the Web 2.0 Tool Storyboard That
⭐ Create a Video using Animoto

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You've taught your students the EDP (Engineering Design Process), now what? This poster creating activity allows a group of students to create their own version of an Engineering Design Process classroom poster.

Using the Four Corner Poster Project method, studnets research and work together to create their own poster for a classroom supply company.

In this lesson, students learn more about how social media works and appropriate and responsible use of the medium. Included with the lesson is a fun, quick, WebQuest to use as a warmup to the lesson to help students improve their Internet search skills. Next, students work in small teams to research one area of digital citizenship and create a poster in Microsoft Word or Powerpoint to showcase their learning. Finally, students look at their own digital footprint and create a graphic that shows how they want to be perceived online in the future. These project are great to print and display in the classroom or hallway!

This lesson was designed for middle school (grades 6-8) but could be used in upper elementary grades or high school as well.

This lesson is great for distance learning/remote learning. You can upload it to your school's learning management system (Google Classroom, Edmodo, Canvas, etc.) or share with students via Google Drive.

Files included:

• Teacher & Student Resources

• Fun Facts about Social Media WebQuest

• Fun Facts about Social Media WebQuest Answer Key

• Digital Citizenship Poster Lesson Instructions, Project Expectations and Grading Rubric

• Team Sign Up Sheet

• Sample Poster Project (non-editable .pdf)

• My Digital Footprint Project Instructions, Project Expectations, and Grading Rubric

• Footprint Template (editable Microsoft PowerPoint file)

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⭐ Exploring Google Search Features WebQuest - Scavenger Hunt
⭐ Learning about Copyright WebQuest (Internet Scavenger Hunt)

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Here's your poster set for Simple Machines! There are 8 (18x24) posters here for your classroom! Each poster includes the definition, a picture and how to find the mechanical advantage of the featured machine! The set includes: Inclined Planes, Levers, Wheel & Axle, Pulley, Gears, Wedges, Screws and Force. Great addition to science classroom or a technology lab!!

It's never too early to start thinking about college! This project based learning activity has students explore a college of their choice, research information about majors, classes, what life at college will be like and what it will cost and compile that data into Microsoft Word. Using that information, students create a poster to showcase their college of choice in a poster using either Microsoft Word or Google Docs that is suitable to print and display.

This lesson is great for distance learning/remote learning. You can upload it to your school's learning management system (Google Classroom, Edmodo, Canvas, etc.) or share with students via Google Drive.

Files Included:

• Teacher & Student Notes and Resources

• College Research Worksheet

• College Poster Project Instructions, Expectations and Grading Rubric

• College Poster Template (Microsoft Word /Google Docs)

• College Poster Project Example

A fun activity that gets kids thinking about their future!

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Are you in charge of the School News? Have you ever wondered if your news program can be more than it is? Follow along our journey as we reimagined our school news and changed things for the better.

Included:

• How We Reimagined the Morning News (19 pages) - Step-by-step accounting of our process to move from uploaded video news to a 15-30 minutes news show every single day. Includes links to products, videos, sample documents and posters, management techniques, and segment ideas.
• Segment Ideas (PowerPoint) printables for creating a bulletin board display of segment ideas.
• News Crew Posters (PowerPoint) - two different full size poster images that we use in our news room. One explains the different jobs. The other one keeps track of students that are out of the newsroom.
• Passes (PowerPoint) - editable PowerPoint with our news crew passes allow for early entry to the news room
• News Crew Job Assignments (PowerPoint) - Individual printouts for each of the news crew jobs.