Digital Design, Graphic Design Canva Projects: Middle, High School Art Lessons
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Teach your middle or high school art students about digital design and graphic design using these 6 Canva projects. These lessons can be taught even if you have zero experience with the program, Canva. Canva is a free, online program, perfect for an art class on a budget or Chromebooks.
These 6 Canva lessons are drop-in-ready. They include step-by-step instructions to walk you and your students through the assignment.
Read more on each art activity below:
This introduction to design project tasks students with developing their design aesthetic and applying it to a vision board. It includes:
➣Lesson Plan (with big idea, national standards, vocabulary, step-by-step instructions, and more)
➣2 PowerPoints
➣Research activity
➣Brainstorm activity
➣Canva how to
➣Canva project steps
➣Project checklist
➣Critique reflection
➣Project rubric
This middle or high school art, graphic design-based project tasks students with developing a logo that reflects their personality using the free online program, Canva.
➣Lesson Plan (with big idea, national standards, vocabulary, step-by-step instructions, and more)
➣2 PowerPoints
➣Brand identity questionnaire
➣Visual identity questionnaire
➣Canva basics info sheet
➣Logo research assignment
➣Design tips handout
➣Logo how-to instructions
➣Project checklist
➣Critique reflection sheet
➣Critique dice rolling game and instructions
➣Project checklist
➣Rubric
This project pack has students develop a hypothetical company, creating a business card and brochure for the company.
➣Lesson Plan (with big idea, national standards, vocabulary, step-by-step instructions, and more)
➣2 PowerPoints
➣Brand identity questionnaire
➣Visual identity questionnaire
➣Inkscape basics info sheet (if you have access to downloading applications)
➣Vectr basics info sheet (for online access on Chromebooks or iPads)
➣Canva basics info sheet
➣Design tips handout
➣Logo and business card layout instructions
➣Brochure layout instructions
➣Project checklist
➣Critique reflection sheet
➣Critique dice rolling game and instructions
➣Rubric
This middle or high school art drawing project focuses on combining traditional drawing techniques with digital manipulation and technology in order to create a GIF.
➢A lesson plan (with a big idea, objectives, vocabulary, national middle and high school art standards, and step by step instructions on implementing the project)
➢PowerPoint to introduce the assignment with project examples
➢PowerPoint to go into the specifics of how to upload and edit drawings
➢Image editing how-to handout for Photoshop and Pixlr
➢GIF how to handout
➢Critique sheet
➢Emoji critique labels
➢Emoji critique guide
➢Rubric
This movie poster redesign project tasks middle or high school art students with designing a film poster for an already existing movie using Canva.
➣Lesson Plan (with big idea, national standards, vocabulary, step-by-step instructions, and more)
➣2 PowerPoints
➣Movie Poster research sheet
➣Canva basics info sheet
➣Client information sheet
➣Canva how-tos specific to the project
➣Project checklist
➣Critique reflection sheet
➣Critique labels
➣Rubric
This campaign poster project tasks middle or high school art or history students with designing a campaign poster using the free program, Canva.
➣Lesson Plan (with big idea, national standards, vocabulary, step-by-step instructions, and more)
➣2 PowerPoints
➣Campaign poster research sheet
➣Canva basics info sheet
➣Poster information sheet
➣Canva how-tos specific to the project
➣Pixlr how-tos specific to the project
➣Project checklist
➣Critique reflection sheet
➣Rubric
The design field is ever-growing. Introduce students to the variety of creative careers they can pursue through design classes.
In addition, this could be an easy project to implement if students are working from home. Handouts can be e-mailed or sent home with students and step-by-step instructions are already done, easy for homeschoolers or for homework assignments! This is a perfect intro to learning about design-based careers such as graphic design.
Interested in more graphic design projects? Check out my book cover and album design projects here.
Check out my shoe design project and teach your students the basics of Inkscape, another free design program.
Check out additional design class projects and resources here.
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