Thinking of new classroom projects for your high school students? A classroom teacher has this advantage over other teachers: the opportunity to inspire and influence his students more, since he is their immediate advisor, friend and mentor. By facilitating meaningful classroom projects, they allow students to take on additional responsibilities, learn new things, interact better, and have fun. So instead of the usual fundraising activities and projects, why not try something more inspiring? Here are some ideas that you can implement in your class.
INSPIRATIONAL POSTERS
Encourage your students to inspire other students, to give them food for the soul. You can do this by asking them to design and create posters with inspirational quotes about life that they can look up or make themselves. Ask them to add graphics or illustrations, even simple ones, to expand on the given message. These posters can be put up around the school to serve as words of motivation and encouragement.
INSPIRATIONAL ARTICLES
Your students may also want to use inspirational quotes to decorate various items that they sell at school to other students and even teachers as a fundraising project for their class. For example, they can design and create homemade cards and bookmarks with inspirational quotes. They can also hand-paint plain white shirts with these quotes, along with matching designs. If they have capital for this small business, they can also choose to make T-shirt designs on the computer and print them on the T-shirts. Afterwards, it would be good to suggest that they also make appropriate flyers and / or advertising and promotional posters so that others know that these items are for sale.
Also, have your students wear the shirts themselves when selling these things. Imagine seeing a classmate in a statement t-shirt that seems to scream an inspirational message!
INSPIRATIONAL CONTESTS
How about we let other students from the school of different levels join in the fun? Perhaps your class can plan and facilitate a drawing, painting, or writing contest to interpret a particular quote! It can even be done weekly! They will have to create the mechanics and promotional materials. They can hand out tokens as prizes and also certificates for the winners. In addition, you may want to ask those responsible for the school newspaper to publish and publish the work of the winners. In this way, your class project can become a school-wide activity. And at the same time, your students can also get closer to their peers and touch their lives!
So, what are you waiting for? Use your classroom periods now to start planning the project that you think would best benefit your students. Better yet, you can let them vote on which one they’d like to do. It would also be good to divide them into groups and have each one do something different. Just be sure to help them with planning and implementation. It can be the series of inspiring projects of your kind. Good luck and enjoy!