Canva Career Poster Project
This is a fun and informative project that uses your research and visual design skills together.
PROJECT STEPS - OVERVIEWStep 1
Choose a career that interests you. It is recommended that you take notes in Microsoft Word under five separate headings.
Step 2 Take your notes carefully and thoroughly. Use your own words when taking notes. DO NOT PLAGIARIZE! Step 3 Examine your information and try to put the facts into a logical order. You will want to follow this order on your Canva poster. Step 4 Find pictures, graphs or diagrams that illustrate your career and make it look appealing to others. You should have at least two pictures, but no more than five, on your poster to make it more visually interesting! (You will be graded on your final project which will be a Canva 2 page front and back poster containing the Title of your Career, information, and pictures, graphs or diagrams. PLEASE LOOK AT THE EXAMPLES BELOW FOR WHAT YOUR POSTERS SHOULD LOOK LIKE! CAREER RESEARCH
Essential Question: What requirements (educational and personal) do I need to succeed at reaching my career goal? Some guide questions are provided below to help your research. Your notes MUST be divided into these five sections: 1. What the career is: This includes a description of the career itself, skills or tasks that one performs in this career, and any additional information that you feel is relevant to this area. 2. The educational/training requirements: What level of schooling is necessary? Are there any special tests or exams? (Examples: teachers need to pass Praxis Level 1 and Praxis Level 2 exams; truck drivers need to have special driver’s licenses) Are there any physical or personal requirements? (Examples: the ability to lift heavy loads; the ability to solve complex math equations) 3. Salary/Earnings/Benefits: (include vacation time, medical benefits, retirement plans, flexible hours, annual pay increases…) 4. A Typical Day in the Life of …”: A description or list of tasks that one would perform in a typical day. Career Project Online Resources
Use the following online resources to research your chosen career: Career Cruising – http://public.careercruising.com/en/home/ Log-in and look over careers you saved to your My Journal > My Careers Career Connections – www.careerconnections-ct.com Click on the link to “What Career is Right for Me?” in the left hand column. Click on “Dream It. Do It” in the middle of the page. You may take the Dream Career Quiz to indicate your career personality, or skip to the bottom of the page and click on career profiles to read career descriptions. You will need much more information from the following three online databases to complete your project. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics – www.bls.gov/ In the left hand column, choose “Resources for Students & Teachers.” Then, in the middle of the page, choose “Career Information for Students” which gives descriptive information on 60 jobs, OR, choose “Occupational Outlook Handbook” and type in the career you would wish to research, eg. “fashion design” or “bicycle repair” or “pediatrician” or other in the Search OOH box. Your results list will be links to careers described within the Bureau of Labor Statistics database. You may choose any of these links to view this information: Nature of the Work (this is the job description which you are required to write) Training Employment Job Outlook Projections Data Earnings OES Data (Occupational Employment Statistics) Related Occupations Sources of Additional Information MyPlan.com – www.myplan.com From the home page, you can choose to search the “Career Database” for a career of your choice. You may either SEARCH by entering the search term, such as “fashion design” or “bicycle repair” or “pediatrician”, or you may BROWSE the list of 902 careers. Once you have chosen your career to research, myplan.com gives you a job description, job requirements, significant points and salary information. These are four of the five requirements for your project! Watch this short video on using Canva before you startCREATE YOUR VISUAL CAREER POSTER DESIGN (FRONT & BACK)
A front and back sided Canva poster must be designed with all the career information in text and be accompanied by related photos. Please use photos at a very large scale like those shown in the examples on this page below. The poster must contain the information (in paragraph or bullet form) in each of the five areas that has been found through research:
Log in to Canva.com and click Sign in with GoogleSelect Poster from the Create a Design optionsUse any of the Free Templates to begin |
Submit when finished for Extra Credit Points
(50pts. possible)
When you complete this project:
- Download your poster
- Print out both pages to the color printer
- Staple them together
- Write your name and class period
- Place into correct class basket for grading
Canva Poster Examples
Front side
Back side