Elements of your Display Board

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Elements of your Display Board

• C. Hudson
• Senior Project

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Required Elements

• Your first and last name
• Title of Project
• Research Paper Overview
• Project Overview
• Photos with captions
• Items displayed detail (IF you have items
  displayed)

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Additional Elements

• You may also consider adding
• Acknowledgements
• Samples
• Pamphlets
• Useful facts
• Statistics and figures
• Items related to your topic

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Font Information

• On some of the following slides, you will see a
  SUGGESTED font size. This suggestion was
  determined by looking at the size of TIMES NEW
  ROMAN font. If you choose a different font (and
  I hope you do), the sizes may be different.
• I have sample printouts of the sizes in my
  classroom, ask me to see them.

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Suggested Font Sizes

• First and Last Name
• No smaller than 100
• Title of Project
• No smaller than 350
• This is a SUGGESTION only

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Research Paper Overview

• Look at your papers outline and write an
  abstract (brief overview) of all of the topics
  covered in your paper.
• Aim to fill a page
• Suggested font size 20-24.

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Research Paper Overview My research paper began
with a brief history of clay pottery created by
the Quapaw Indian Tribe. It described a few of
the uses of pottery for the tribe and some of the
more common decorative designs. My paper focused
on the materials and skills needed for an amateur
artist to learn how to create ceramic pottery
pieces. My paper reviewed types of clay that
can be used, types of tools needed to work with
the clay and how to prepare the clay to begin
creating a pottery piece. I also covered a few
of the common methods used to create ceramic
pottery pieces. The methods described in my
paper were slab, coil and pinch. For each method
I also described the tools needed to create a
pot. My paper concluded with potential careers
for those interested or skilled in ceramic arts.
It discussed the schooling and the career options.
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Things to Note

• ENTIRE paper was described, beginning to end in
  the order it was written.
• Written in 1st person (yeah!)
• Variety of verbs used (see red text on next
  slide)
• Dont type My paper talked about ... or In
  my paper I talked about
• WHY? Your paper doesnt TALK and YOU did not
  talk, you WROTE

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Research Paper Overview My research paper began
with a brief history of clay pottery created by
the Quapaw Indian Tribe. It described a few of
the uses of pottery for the tribe and some of the
more common decorative designs. My paper focused
on the materials and skills needed for an amateur
artist to learn how to create ceramic pottery
pieces. My paper reviewed types of clay that
can be used, types of tools needed to work with
the clay and how to prepare the clay to begin
creating a pottery piece. I also covered a few
of the common methods used to create ceramic
pottery pieces. The methods described in my
paper were slab, coil and pinch. For each method
I also described the tools needed to create a
pot. My paper concluded with potential careers
for those interested or skilled in ceramic arts.
It discussed the schooling and the career options.
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Project Overview

• Answer the question What did you do for your
  project?
• Be specific
• Be detailed
• Be ordered (where did you start, where did you
  go, where did you end up)
• Aim to fill a page
• Suggested font size 20-24

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Project Overview For my project, I led an after
school art program at Riverton Middle School for
four weeks. The program focused on introducing
students to clay and basic clay working
techniques. Twenty students enrolled in the class
and we met three times a week in Mrs. Keys
classroom. On the first day students watched a
slide show of photos of clay pieces I had
created. Then, each student was given a portion
of clay. They learned some of the basic
properties of clay and how to work it to before
it can be used to create a pottery piece. During
the second session, I taught students how to use
the coil, slab and pinch techniques. For the next
six class periods, students created two pieces
using two different techniques. I required that
the pieces they created be able to hold
something, but not necessarily fluid. During
the final week of the after school art program,
students used glaze to decorate their pots. The
Red Star Studio in Joplin, MO allowed me to use
their kiln space to fire the pieces for the
students. The clay pots created by my student are
on display in the middle school office.
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Things to Note

• Entire project was described, not just portions
  of it
• The project was described from beginning to end
  in chronological order
• The overview included who, what, when, where,
  why, how ...
• DO AS MUCH OF THIS AS YOU CAN!

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Photo Captions

• TRY, TRY, TRY to answer the following in EVERY
  photo caption you create
• Who
• What
• Why
• When
• Where
• How
• Otherwise, you have not written an effective
  caption!

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BAD Example (non-exemplar)
This is a photo of Abby.
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BETTER Example
Abby, our black lab, rests on her new doggie bed.
This was Abbys first day in our home after we
adopted her.
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Font Size for Captions

• Recommended 20-24 range

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OTHER CONSIDERATIONS

• Use color to your advantage you can put colored
  paper into the printer (NOT construction paper).
  
• Your fonts do not have to be printed in black but
  they need to be in darker shades.
• Choose font styles and sizes that can be read
  from 3 feet away TEST THIS!