Poster topics can be of any appropriate subject. Poster formats are usually either an alphabet poster or a general panel format. Alphabet posters are clever, creative, and a great class project for interactive sharing and learning. General format posters also require class interaction although the panels generally reflect the work of an individual student more than a collaborative project.

Topic
Topics could reflect a general subject (math), a unit (Ancient Civilizations), something suggested by the current class topic, or a special activity of the curriculum such as a field trip. In the two examples below, an eight grade French class produced a French culture poster. A second grade class with bird feeders outside their classroom extended their journaling excercise to drawing, researching and writing about the birds they noted in their journals each day. There is no limit to topics. Just keep in mind that the final poster should have interest to the audience, usually the general public.

Alphabet Poster
Choose whether your poster will be an alphabet poster or general panel format. Alphabet posters are quite popular as they provide many opportunities for creative thinking as the students find ways to fully present the topic in this familiar yet rigid format. General format posters are good for presenting a topic with more or less panels than are appropriate for an alphabet poster.

General Format Poster
Choose whether your poster will be an alphabet poster or general panel format. Alphabet posters are quite popular as they provide many opportunities for creative thinking as the students find ways to fully present the topic in this familiar yet rigid format. General format posters are good for presenting a topic with more or less panels than are appropriate for an alphabet poster.

Color and Other Design Elements
We usually decide on the color combinations, background, fonts, and other design elements for your poster. If you have favorite or detested colors, please mention them and we will likely accommodate you. If you find something in our completed posters you like, we can provide something similar. Although we try to make each poster unique for overall design, we make most design decisions and cannot consult with you on design choices. The Poster Outreach Project is not a custom design service but an effort to provide an attractive poster you can place in your community with pride.

If multiple classes in a school are producing posters which are related to each other, we attempt to visually link them with a similar design but use different color patterns, fonts, and other design elements to make them different from each other. If posters are not related or are in a yearly series, we try to make them distinct.

As much as possible, please leave the design up to us unless you have strong feelings about something.