Lesson Plan Highlights

Posters that Empower

Grade 6

For this lesson, students combined typography with photography or illustration to create a poster that advocated for a social justice issue of their choice. They also were asked to come up with their own imaginary non-profit organization to promote their cause.

Popcorn Party

Grade 8

In this lesson, students took a handful of popcorn to create quick observational sketches of 10 pieces of popcorn. From there, they chose only one piece of popcorn to create a final illustration on an 8.5 x 11 black sheet of paper.