Classroom Bulletin Boards Ideas
Elementary, Middle and High School Bulletin Boards Ideas for the Classroom
Create awesome classroom bulletin boards with these teacher inspired ideas. Make students a part of the process and save yourself some valuable time.
Bulletin Boards are an important element in the classrooms for kindergarten to high school students. Their purpose is to be a teaching tool or to showcase the students work. Often bulletin boards in my experience are drab and cookie cutter from the local education store.
Classroom bulletin boards that are created by the teacher should spark conversation, to allow students to become active participants in the learning process. Frequently school bulletin boards are static and their message is not delivered to the students. No matter if you are creating a bulletin board for middle school, high school or elementary school, they have little value unless they attract the students' attention. How often have you walked passed a bulletin board and only notice the neon lettering?
As a teacher, you can save yourself time by allowing the students to be creators of the bulletin boards. Middle school and high school students can create the bulletin boards that will teach a new skill or to showcase the students work. Kindergarten and primary school students can work with the teacher to create the bulletin boards.
Kindergarten Classroom Bulletin Boards Ideas
• Alphabet Bulletin Boards: Students are given a letter of the alphabet and they print the letter in upper and lower case and draw a picture to correspond with the letter. Teacher may wish to place a small box in the upper or lower left corner of the paper with the letter. He may also do dots on the page for the students to trace the letter depending on their ability. After the activity is finished students must problem solve on the order of the alphabet as the class and the teacher staples it to the bulletin boards.
• Showcase Bulletin Boards: For the lower bulletin boards, students in groups or individually place their artwork on the bulletin boards in a random order.
Elementary Classroom Bulletin Boards Ideas
• Teacher creates a KWL chart (Know, Would Like to Know, Learned) on the bulletin boards about a specific topic. Students write or draw pictures of what they know, or would like to know about the specific topics. As students, learn more about the topic, they add new information to the bulletin board and remove the false information. At the end of the unit, students have a studying aid or their finished projects may be displayed.
• Time for art in the schools is diminishing. Allow students design bulletin boards to get their creative juices flowing.
Middle School and High School Classroom Bulletin Boards Ideas
• Bulletin boards with all the same size paper and style are boring and are regularly overlooked by students. Have students write a monologue about their favourite character in a book and display their words on the bulletin boards. Some may be created on poster boards, others may use metallic ink, and some may be ordinary. Students will be more willing to read the information when it is eye catching than a blur of white stock paper.
• Students in groups create a discussion board on a topic on a bulletin board. Students use drawing, photos, and words to illustrate a topic that may include a graphic organizer for students to link the information.
