9th Grade The New Year Bulletin Board Ideas

Anatomy for a New Year: Goal-Setting Activity

This engaging, anatomy themed goal-setting activity is perfect for back-to-school or New Year motivation! Students use a creative "human body" outline as a metaphor for setting personal and academic goals, while exploring how each body part connects to their aspirations.

Help your students start the year off right with Anatomy for a New Year, a creative goal-setting activity designed to inspire, motivate, and connect students to their future!

Using a human body template, students identify and map their goals for the year:

• Heart: What they’re passionate about in health science or nursing.
• Brain: Knowledge they want to gain or subjects they’re excited to explore.
• Hands: Skills they want to practice or master.
• Feet: Steps they’ll take to achieve their goals.
• Eyes: Their vision for the future.
• Lungs: How they’ll stay balanced and energized throughout the year.

What’s Included:

• A printable human body template for students to label and decorate.
• A teacher guide/lesson plan with instructions and examples to get started.
• A reflection worksheet to revisit and assess progress at the end of the year.

Why You'll Love It:

• Promotes self-reflection, planning, and motivation in a fun, interactive way.
• Encourages critical thinking about health-related goals and habits.
• Perfect for high school health science, anatomy, or nursing pathways.
• Easy to adapt for personal and academic goals or skills they want to master.

How to Use:

• Kick off the New Year or semester by introducing the activity.
• Have students brainstorm their goals using the guided prompts.
• Allow them to decorate their templates, making them personal and inspiring.
• Display completed templates in your classroom to serve as ongoing motivation.

Grade Level: High school (grades 9-12)

Bonus:

At the end of the year, revisit the templates as a reflection activity to assess progress and celebrate accomplishments.

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Anatomy for a New Year: Goal-Setting Activity

This engaging, anatomy themed goal-setting activity is perfect for back-to-school or New Year motivation! Students use a creative "human body" outline as a metaphor for setting personal and academic goals, while exploring how each body part connects to their aspirations.

Help your students start the year off right with Anatomy for a New Year, a creative goal-setting activity designed to inspire, motivate, and connect students to their future!

Using a human body template, students identify and map their goals for the year:

• Heart: What they’re passionate about in health science or nursing.
• Brain: Knowledge they want to gain or subjects they’re excited to explore.
• Hands: Skills they want to practice or master.
• Feet: Steps they’ll take to achieve their goals.
• Eyes: Their vision for the future.
• Lungs: How they’ll stay balanced and energized throughout the year.

What’s Included:

• A printable human body template for students to label and decorate.
• A teacher guide/lesson plan with instructions and examples to get started.
• A reflection worksheet to revisit and assess progress at the end of the year.

Why You'll Love It:

• Promotes self-reflection, planning, and motivation in a fun, interactive way.
• Encourages critical thinking about health-related goals and habits.
• Perfect for high school health science, anatomy, or nursing pathways.
• Easy to adapt for personal and academic goals or skills they want to master.

How to Use:

• Kick off the New Year or semester by introducing the activity.
• Have students brainstorm their goals using the guided prompts.
• Allow them to decorate their templates, making them personal and inspiring.
• Display completed templates in your classroom to serve as ongoing motivation.

Grade Level: High school (grades 9-12)

Bonus:

At the end of the year, revisit the templates as a reflection activity to assess progress and celebrate accomplishments.

More fun activities:

Cardiovascular System HS Anatomy / Health Science / Biology No Prior Learning!

Digestive System Unit NO PRIOR LEARNING! Anatomy / Health Science / Biology

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Are you looking for an engaging activity and bulletin board to learn about New Year around the world? Do you want to foster diversity and an inclusive classroom? Then look no further than this no prep WebQuest and Interactive Bulletin Board Set!

WEBQUEST

When you purchase this scavenger hunt resource, you'll receive the activity in both print and digital formats. The research questions provided allow for scaffolded instruction that can be completed individually, in pairs, or in small groups. You can even use this lesson as a fun team-building or gamified activity. Your students are guaranteed to learn more with this high-quality, no-prep resource!

Celebrations include Nowruz, Rosh Hashanah, Omisoka, New Year’s Day, Enkuratash, Hari Raya Nyepi, Lunar New Year, Songkran, Niewjaarsduik, Tết Nguyên Đán.

BULLETIN BOARD SET

The perfect way to celebrate the diversity in your classroom is with this Global New Year's Celebrations interactive bulletin board featuring 10+ different cultures! From Indonesia and Iran to Ethiopia and Peru, students will learn how cultures worldwide celebrate this holiday. This bulletin board also comes with interactive reflection mini-posters to encourage students to share about their own cultures, customs, and traditions.

➟ No prep - print on 8.5 X 11 paper and hang!

➟ THIS RESOURCE INCLUDES

• 23 question WebQuest/scavenger hunt (The URLs provided in this WebQuest are not 'live.' They are kept very simple so that students can easily type the URLs in the search bar to hunt for their answers). Text boxes are all set, ready to go!
• Reflection questions
• Instructions & Answer Key
• Website Evaluation Form
• Live links are provided on the last page of the resource
• Terms of Use

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Are you looking for a way for students to relax and be mindful in the New Year? Your students will be delighted with this fun HAPPY NEW YEAR Zentangle coloring sheet! Coloring promotes relaxation and mindfulness and gives your doodlers something to keep their hands busy with so they can better focus in class.

How to use this product:

• As a bulletin board
• For early finishers
• As a holiday gift for friends and loved ones
• As a way to relax and calm down

This product includes:

• 1 Happy New Year Zentangle
• Terms of Use

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Looking for a simple and powerful way to celebrate diversity in your classroom this New Year? Do you want your classroom to look festive? Then download my New Years Bulletin Board Celebrations Around the World resource! This unique bulletin board features 11 different cultures. Included are interactive mini-posters so students can share their cultures, customs, and traditions while reading about cultures worldwide. It's the perfect way to celebrate the season inclusively!

A low ink set is also included!

These attractive posters create a beautiful bulletin board with minimal prep. Just print on standard 8.5 x 11" paper, laminate, and hang! You can add the student-created posters whenever they are complete. This set has everything you need to decorate for the New Year!

➟ This resource contains mini-posters on the following:

• Nowruz
• Rosh Hashanah
• Omisoka
• New Year’s Day
• Enkuratash
• Hari Raya Nyepi
• Lunar New Year
• Songkran
• Niewjaarsduik
• Tết Nguyên Đán
• "Title" poster for your board
• **The same holiday/festival posters in a low-ink format (interactive slides are all low-ink)

➟ Why this resource?

• Fun & interactive way to learn about 11 different New Year festivals
• Interactive bulletin board allows students to reflect on their own cultural heritage
• Creates an inclusive classroom environment
• All you need to decorate January/February

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Ring in the new year with this NO PREP acrostic poem goal writing activity! Students can choose their favorite words and write their own acrostic poem on the printable template while spelling out the words HAPPY NEW YEAR. Enjoy as morning work, center activity, brain break, or for your New Year's Party!

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New Year's Bundle

Directions:

• Print the template in color or black and white
• students write a word or phrase to describe what they hope the new year will bring for them or what goals they have for the new year
• In an acrostic poem, each line starts with a capital letter that spells out the poem's theme vertically
• Acrostic poems don't need to rhyme, but all the other poetic devices like alliteration, similes, and rhythm are often used to create an effect on the reader

What's included?

• 1 "Happy New Year" acrostic poem template in Color
• 1 "Happy New Year" acrostic poem template in Black and White

New Year's Resources

Writing Resources