LESSON DESIGNS

With over fifteen years in Education, and most of that teaching Electives, I am often writing my own curriculum and developing my own lessons to be used by myself and my team. When designing a lesson or a project for students, it is important to me for it to be visually appealing as well as organized, to help eliminate any confusion by students.

Black History Presentation

This project is designed to touch a number of skills throughout. Targeted areas include research skills, Black History, and Presentation design.

Students take two weeks to pick a topic, research about it, and finally learn about how to design an effective presentation. The project is finished with a presentation presented using Google Slides.

Typography

This lesson / unit design is meant to address Typography principles and teach students about the four basic font families.

This hyperdoc contains links to an introductory worksheet where students watch a video and answer questions, access a class slideshow, and also lay out two class activities.

Food Truck Design Project

This project was designed to be completed in teams of 3-4 students, although it could be completed with two students as well.

Students were tasked with developing a concept for a Food Truck design, and then creating the branding content as well as several additional items to complete an overall concept for this design. This has been a project that has overall been welcomed and embraced by Graphic Design 2 students during the fall semester. This project builds on design skills that students already have explored with logos, Illustrator, and Photoshop, and challenges them to develop a visual identity that connects with the proposed brand.

Due to the extensive amount of pieces this project requires to demonstrate adequate design skills, as well as plan for the marketing of a similar concept.

Click to view a slideshow of student samples from one of my class periods.

RESUME PLANNING KIT

This project is designed for middle school and high school students and extensively moves through the preparation process for developing a resume. It provides opportunities for students to think through their experiences, their interests, references, and more. It also breaks down an explanation of the various parts of a cover letter and explains how references should be organized as well as provides multiple examples of how a resume can be styled as well as several links to helpful resources.

The development of this project came as a result of searching through multiple different resources and looking to develop a project that could really walk students through the process of developing the content for their resume that they can build on over time, and focuses on determining the content for the resume before determining the design format, and helps students describe potential employability skills without necessarily having paid job experience.