FEATURES
Project
1. Advertisements: create an advertising
campaign to sell a product. The product can be real
or imaginary. Try using this to teach persuasion, as
an assignment for speech class, or to reinforce skills
learned in a consumer class.
2. Album Covers: create artwork for an album. The
album may be connected to a skill (such a multiplication)
and should demonstrate or explain how that skill is
used. Or the album cover may be connected to a novel
and the art work might present a relevant theme in the
story. Another use would be to have students create
natural disaster album covers in a science class where
the cover would depict and explain the event.
3. Autobiographies: write the story of your life.
This assignment may help you teach autobiography or
reinforce a broad range of writing skills.
4. Awards: create awards to present to historical
figures, scientists, mathematicians, authors, or
characters from a novel.
5. Banners: create an informational banner.
Students could create time lines of the American civil
war or the Spanish alphabet.
6. Bar Graphs: create illustrated bar graphs. These
may be used to explore data sets, use statistics to
support a point, or illustrate a growth or change in a
market.
7. Biographies: write the life story of someone else.
It could be a friend, family member, historical figure, or
a fictional character.
8. Blogs: create blogs for literary characters or
historical figures. Create an actual blog for free at
blogger.com or just have students write and organize
articles on white printer paper if the internet is not
available.
9. Blueprints: create blueprints or floor plans of
a scene described in a novel, an historic setting, or an
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earthquake proof bridge or structure.
10. Boardgames: create boardgames where
students review course concepts. Game play should
be based around answering review questions correctly.
11. Book Clubs: Students read either novels or
selections from the text book and discuss the readings in
small groups. Students might be required to take notes
about the discussion or provide an audio recording of
the discussion as the artifact to be evaluated. Students
might also create discussion questions beforehand and
have these approved by the instructor. This activity
may be applied to reading selections in any subject.
12. Booklets: create an informational booklet. In
the past I’ve had students create booklets showing
comma rules, narrator’s perspective, genre, figurative
language, and more. Booklets can be applied to almost
any unit of study and all they require to make are some
blank white printer paper folded in half, one of my
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13. Bookmarks: create illustrated bookmarks with
relevant information. A bookmark might summarize
previous chapters or contain the definitions of
challenging vocabulary words.
14. Brochures: brochures can be made as either
tri-fold or bi-folds. Students can create informational
brochure’s about geographic locations, a story’s setting,
or a natural event such as how a tidal wave is formed or
how the food chain works.
15. Calendars: create a calendar charting the dates
of key events. This can be applied to an historical event
(like a famous battle), a scientific event (such a the path
of Hurricane Katrina), or the sequence of events in story.
16. Casting Calls: select people (fictional, famous,
or otherwise) to play the role in a movie version of story
or historic event. Explain which character traits were
considered in each selection.