The authors provide tips for creating pleasing bulletin boards for the elementary classroom. Mood, lettering, materials, and design are considered. In addition, they suggest ideas for a thematic bulletin board for each month of the school year. (SJL)

Presents ideas for creating a welcoming classroom environment, including: decorating the room by hanging students' names from the ceiling; making a classroom community puzzle involving each student; and developing a variety of welcoming bulletin boards. A reproducible sheet includes cut-out shapes to make an underwater-theme bulletin board that…

Describes visual aids for training meetings and suggests how the trainer can use them: chalkboards, markerboards, magnetic boards, hook-and-loop boards, corkboards, menu (changeable letter) boards, and easel and presentation boards. Also lists product manufacturers/suppliers. (MF)

Interactive bulletin boards for early childhood rooms can often be made with supplies and materials used for other games and activities. This paper tells how it can be done. The project is interactive in that children are involved in decisions about the appearance of the completed board. Additional topics of discussion in this paper include…

Following an explanation of why bulletin boards should be used, the author outlines a system by which a busy secondary teacher can keep class bulletin boards current and attractive: letting the students do it. (SJL)

This article describes how to use a bulletin board to help intermediate grade-level students organize and present the results of library research about the geographical features of different places. (JDH)

The use of display and presentation boards as tools to help teachers/trainers convey messages more clearly is briefly discussed, and 24 different types of display and presentation boards are described and illustrated; i.e., chalk, paste-up, hook-n-loop, electric, flannel, scroll, communication planning, acetate pocket, slot, pin-tack, preview,…

A Pac-Man bulletin board was designed by a teacher to help spur fifth graders' interest in fractions. (MNS)

Offers tips on creating interactive bulletin boards and displays designed to help elementary students develop thinking skills and number concepts and to help teachers with such daily tasks as taking attendance, keeping track of birthdays, doing lunch counts, maintaining job lists, and exploring individual student characteristics. (SM)

This paper describes a collection of novel ideas for bulletin board displays that would be useful in supplementing science classroom instruction. Information on women and minorities in science; science concepts in everyday activities such as nutrition, baseball, and ice cream-making; and various holidays and celebratory events is included. Each…

This document consists of bulletin board ideas for high school home economics classrooms. The first section contains 19 themes for bulletin boards. Each page contains the name of the theme, needed materials and supplies, and an illustration of the bulletin board. Themes include the following: home economics occupations, motivational materials,…

The teaching activity presented in this pamphlet intends to show elementary teachers how to produce better signs, posters, and displays, and how to improve graphic communication throughout the school. Beginning with a discussion of the intended purpose of a display and ways to make graphic messages succeed, the pamphlet lists necessary equipment…

Designed for teachers of early childhood or special education students, this guide contains instructions and illustrations for classroom activities for the months of September, October, and November. Most of the activities involve art projects and many incorporate teaching in other subject areas such as mathematics, language arts, science, and…

Trademark designs provide a familiar yet innovative way for students to look at a number of mathematical concepts. How line and rotational symmetry can be presented using trademarks is the focus of this article. The emphasis is on the design of bulletin boards. (MNS)

This book offers over 200 library bulletin board ideas for the high school audience, intended to help students gain understanding, inspiration, and amusement while encouraging reading and library use. Each idea includes a list of materials, and many of the ideas are clearly illustrated. While the concepts are aimed specifically at the high school…