Make Adventure Travel Posters

Art/Social Studies

Students will select travel destinations that can be combined with adventure activities, research the destinations and activities, and then make posters advertising their chosen adventure trips.

What You Need

• Reference sources (Web sites, encyclopedias, travel magazines, travel guides, sports and other special-interest magazines, etc.) on exciting travel destinations and adventure travel
• Samples of travel posters
• Old travel magazines or issues of National Geographic that feature interesting places
• Old sports magazines
• Heavy poster paper or poster board
• Crayons, colored pencils and markers
• Glue
• Scissors

What To Do

1. Explain to the class that adventure travel is a special kind of organized travel that offers adventure in addition to normal sightseeing. You may want to provide these examples of adventure trips: helicopter skiing in Canada; a photo safari in Kenya; white-water rafting in Idaho; mountain climbing in the Sierras; biking in France; nature touring in Costa Rica.
2. Tell students that you would like each of them to plan an adventure trip to a destination of their choice, and then to create a travel poster advertising that trip. Encourage students to select adventure activities that they personally enjoy or find intriguing, and destinations that they themselves would like to visit.
3. After students have made their adventure and destination selections, have them do research to learn more about both aspects of their planned trip. Emphasize that students should gather facts that will help to make their adventure travel posters exciting and appealing to others.
4. When the students' research is finished, let them begin making their posters. Offer them the options of drawing their own artwork on the posters or making collages from photos clipped from old magazines.
5. Display the students' completed posters around the classroom.