Description
Explore the basics of commercial signmaking using common tools and materials. View the walkthrough video for this activity here!
Recommended age range: Grades 7-12
Approximate activity duration: 2.5 hours
Each kit contains materials for 30 students.
Following precise techniques that print technicians and signmakers use in industry, students prepare and assemble realistic signage using multiple types of adhesive vinyl and plastics.
Curriculum linkages to explore:
- Safety
- Motor skills
- Fine arts
- Language arts: comprehension, vocabulary development, fluency
- Math: measurement, unit conversions, shape and space relations, number sense and relation, fractions and decimals, geometry, patterns and relations
- Science: matter and energy, mechanical systems, structures and forces
- High school Career and Technology Studies, Special Projects
