Third Grade Useful Environmental Print Ideas

These two ideas correspond with the Utah State Core Curriculum for Third Grade, Standard 1: Oral Language-Students develop language for the purpose of effectively communicating through listening, speaking, viewing, and presenting.

Viewing & Responding to Visual Mediums

Have your students each clip out a picture of a bird in a magazine or newspaper.  When you have them bring it to class, have them write 10 adjectives describing their bird.  After the students have finished writing their adjectives, allow them to present them to the class, which fulfills the oral language core requirement.

Designing a Billboard

Keeping with the theme of birds, have students create a food product for birds. Then, look at some examples of billboard advertisements as a class. Talk about sentence structure and communicating effectively.

In groups of two to four, students will design a billboard advertisement that includes an illustration and at least one complete sentence. In creating the sentence, take the chance to help students identify parts of speech and correct sentence structure. When the billboards are completed, display them in the classroom.

This activity will help the students to see that the things they are learning in class are used in everyday life.