What are some map and bulletin board ideas?
Use an overhead projector to create a large map that includes Alaska and Hawaii. Laminate the map so you can use it year after year. Place stars on the states as you receive their postcard. Use a 3-D plastic map in the hallway to display them. Use string to connect the postcard hanging on the wall to the appropriate state. Allow students who wrote to that state be the one to read the information to the class. (Or if you wrote a class paragraph, just assign states for them to look for and then they can read them) Place the cards in sticky back plastic and hang them so they can read both sides. Title: “Postcard Project” above a US map. Even when you receive more than one a day, choose only one to share each day. This helps to lengthen the project as well as not confuse the students with a lot of new information. A good title: Postcard Pals What are some ongoing and cross the curriculum ideas? As each one comes in compare that state to your state in size, location, climate, time zone, etc
