Water – getting Year 5 to think about their own use of water and that of people in other countries formed the main part of this display. The display was based on photographs and artifacts collected during their day at Brockhole Education Centre in the Lake District National Park. (More details about Brockhole What about [...]
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Climate Change Displays
I think this is an excellent example of an information rich display. It’s not arranged at all the way I would normally recommend for informative displays but it has great impact. It breaks all sorts of design guidelines but it does so in an interesting way. It’s worth remembering that the guidelines aren’t rigid rules [...]
Postcard projects
Postcards, originally uploaded by vikellis. On the UK news yesterday there was a feature about the decline of the traditional postcard. Not as many are being bought in these days of digital communication. Here’s one good reason for buying them! Postcard projects and wall displays. I love them! They are a great way of exciting [...]
Wall Display Primary 6 at Loirston-Coping with Climate Project
Here’s some “children’s voice” about their display work in action P6 at Loirston School have been blogging about how they made their display about climates. Good work! » Coping with Climate Project wall Display Primary 6 at Loirston Coping with Climate Project wall Display February 21, 2008 We made a wall display by splitting into [...]
Rainforest Displays for Year 4
rainforest 1, originally uploaded by LindaH. Every spring Year 4 at my old school would make a 3d rain forest classroom display. The classroom was transformed into a jungle of trees, creepers and interesting animals. This always involved lots of painting, cutting and sticking, and general messiness. Not to mention lots of opportunities for talking [...]
Environment Display – Antarctica
Model and Diorama, originally uploaded by Mulsanne. Today’s classroom display has an environmental theme in honour of Blog Action Day. I love this project which was done as part of the International Polar Year . Dee, the teacher writes: I began with a classroom standard, a KWL chart. On the KWL chart, students first listed [...]
Plastic Bag Collage
Originally uploaded by Vikellis A collage designed and made by a Yr8 form, from used plastic bags. It was part of an environmental issues unit, and was displayed in the Hall, in an attempt to raise awareness of “the plastic bag problem”. It can be hard to make meaningful displays in shared areas – especially [...]
Hands Around the World
DSCF1475.JPG, originally uploaded by Cefn Fforest Primary Photoblog. From Cefn Fforest Primary comes a nice idea you might want to include in next year’s planning. Hands Around the World (sadly no longer running) was a web exchange with a difference. One of the drawbacks of things like this is that children can put large amounts [...]
Jane Goodall’s Camp
This diorama was produced by a girl in Grade 3 in a US elementary school. It’s featured in a new blog called Re-inventing Project Based Learning Jane Krauss, the blog’s author has some kind words about the Classroom Displays blog and group and then asks an interesting question: What do class displays tell us about [...]



