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The National Park Project

National Park Trading Cards


Another choice was for students to make "National Park Trading Cards" using the Big Huge Labs website:

http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/deck.php

Directions were written on a project card. Students had no problems making these cards without much assistance. After they created the card, they dragged it to their desktop. Then they double clicked on the image to open it full size and were able to print the card full size without all the other text on the website page. (We are on Macs, so I’m not sure how this will work on a PC.)

The students loved making these cards. It is the kind of project that could be adapted to almost any subject. You could even have the students do these at home as a homework assignment as a fun way to publish a paragraph or report!

 
 
I also discovered if your Mac is running Leopard, that there is a print option that allows you to print 4 smaller copies on one page, so that they are in trading card size. (At least this works with my printer settings - you’ll have to explore and see if you can find a similar option that works on your machines.)
 
 
Click on the attached file above to download the direction sheet that was given to the students.  Feel free to adapt the directions for use in your classroom.
 
 

First published on Mar 10, 2009.