Whether it is to remind students of behavioral expectations, inspire them to succeed, or teach a lesson, posters are an effective classroom tool. Students respond to visuals and, as opposed to a teacher constantly repeating the same message, the poster stands quietly ready to remind students of the information you want to convey.
Fifteen Places to Download Posters for your Classroom
Purchasing posters can be costly. However, multiple sites offer free downloadable resources. To begin utilizing posters in your classroom while leaving some extra cash in your pocket, consider checking out the following:
- Teachers Pay Teachers is a web-site with a broad range of products developed by teachers, for teachers. While many of the products are available for purchase, visitors to the site can refine searches to include only free items.
- A classroom is not complete without messages to inspire students to become a greater version of themselves. Find colorful, meaningful posters that will motivate anyone who enters your classroom at Venspired.com.
- Teach Junkie offers 27 different poster sets on topics ranging from classroom management to writing strategies and parts of speech.
- On Busy Teacher, the 66 posters are organized a couple different ways. At the top of the page, visitors to this site can quickly see links to the top ten most downloaded posters. Scroll down a little further to search all posters with the ability to refine by those most recently added, most viewed, or most highly rated.
- The Kids Know It website offers a variety of educational posters organized by the following categories: astronomy, biology, history, classroom, science, health, motivational, and reading. All poster pdfs are 19” x 13” but can be printed as large or as small as you like.
- Freeology offers posters on a variety of topics. The posters are neatly organized and each contains a nice description and suggestions for use.
- If you are looking for fresh new inspirational posters for your classroom, check out Edutopia, part of the George Lucas Educational Foundation. While you’re there, check out the other resources this online community offers for educators.
- We Are Teachers provides a number of free downloadable resources for teachers and allows visitors to search posters by grade level and topic. One downside of this site is that all the downloadable items are presented together so you have to do a little mining to find the posters. The upside is that there are many other good resources along with the posters!
- “Cool stuff for nerdy teachers” is the tagline for the Ed Galaxy website and you’ll see why when you visit the site. The free posters on this site are colorful, unique, and appealing to students of all ages. There are both instructional and motivational posters here.
- Reward Charts 4 Kids is unique in that it allows you to customize posters. For example, if you download the Classroom Rules poster, you can edit the text to reflect your own classroom rules. This allows you to take advantage of the great graphics while personalizing your message.
- If you’re into creating your own posters, Poster My Wall is a site that includes posters as well as poster templates that allow you to create custom posters. Incorporate posters into your lesson plan, or develop a class roster with one of the many colorful backgrounds.
- Common Sense Education offers some posters will appeal to middle and high school teachers. The Oversharing: Think Before You Post poster cautions students about the dangers of social media while the Legit-O-Meter helps students critically discern real news from “fake” news. The site also includes posters geared for younger audiences.
- If you are looking for technology-related posters, look no further than Educator's Technology. These posters help students utilize technology for learning, researching, and studying.
- If you’re a math teacher and you don’t know about Jenny Eather’s Math Charts website, you’re missing out. Click on one of the fourteen topics listed on the left side of the page to display a variety of downloadable posters on the topic. These would be great to display near center rotations, changing out specific posters based on the current lesson.
- Unique Teaching Resources compiled a list of 2,000 education-related quotes and turned some of them into posters. Visit this site to view the free posters and get some educational inspiration.
Only a teacher appreciates the thought and care that goes into creating a classroom environment that is welcoming, inspirational, and visually appealing. Use these free posters to breathe new life into your classroom environment and instructional practices while taking advantage of the wealth of additional resources these websites offer.
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