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 and sometimes willfully breaking them can make a better and more exciting design.
Although it is visually rather busy I find myself wanting to pour over it and to read all the posters. Surely that’s exactly the reaction we want for an informative display?
The second display I want to show you uses a more conventional design, with one major design element in a strategic position on the board (the globe) and work arranged less randomly.
I think this one works really well too and I suppose what they have in common, apart from the topic, is the use of pupils’ work is prominent in both displays. Good stuff!
I’ve blogged these as part of Blog Action Day 09 #BAD09
geography
| Contents |
| Climate Change Displays |
| A whole school display project |
| Postcard projects |
| Wall Display Primary 6 at Loirston-Coping with Climate Project |
| Rainforest Displays for Year 4 |
Climate Change Displays
Oct 15
Group 6 – Pimp My Neigborhood, originally uploaded by Red Colander.
Just look at the wonderful things this school in Amsterdam have been getting up to!
Nienke says:
Our entire school just finished a project around the theme “I Live In… Amsterdam”. Every class examined a different subject.
The youngest kids (Group 1/2) made pieces of art and placed them around the school, they also examined animals that live around the school.
Group 3/4 (Grade 1/2) looked at buildings/roofs in Amsterdam.
Group 5 (Grade 3) went to the film museum, made a movie of grade 1/2 working and also did research of animals in the city.
Group 6 (my class, Grade 4), did the project “Pimp My Neighborhood” (‘pimp mijn buurt’). They had a workshop in making photos, they made photos of ugly places in the neighborhood, made drawings of how to improve these place, they made statues of LEGO and K’NEX and they crafted items to pimp up the hood….
Group 7 (Grade 5) looked into the VOC (East-Indies Trading Compagny), did a VOC-walk in Amsterdam and made a radio play.
Group 8 (Grade 6) looked at the streetnames in the neigborhood, which are all names of people that died in World War II, and wrote about their lives. They also made sculptures about peace.
In the end, all the children of the school gave a presentation to (grand)parents, friends, classmates and kids from other grades.
Have a look at the slideshow of everything else they did too.
Postcard projects
Mar 27
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 children’s imagination. This one depends on children bringing back cards from their various holiday destinations.
Another approach is to find classes in other parts of the country or the world to exchange postcards with. This one helped pupils in the USA to place their state in its wider context.
This one was part of my degree work
You can read more about it in Postcards from Virtual Friends
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 DisplayFebruary 21, 2008
We made a wall display by splitting into groups and making a part of the wall display each. The four climates are the Desert, Rain Forest, Polar and the Woodland.
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 and listening, learning through conversation, and a chance for those whose skills might not be text based to really shine.
This slightly chaotic display would always be balanced with something rather more informative:
Beneath the display are a large collection of relevant library books which the class could access when they’d finished their work.
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