Celebration Suggestions

Classroom Teacher Led Mural Project

Option 1: A School and Community Event

The classroom teacher shares the process of the research project and culminating mural.

• The project journals are displayed.
• Students are asked to read parts of the journals that influenced the mural content and  images.

Option 2: A Classroom Event 

• The students reflect on the mural process with each other. 
• Students talk about the researched content and how it was illustrated through the images in both their journals and then the mural.

Teaching Artist Led Mural Project

A School and Community Event

The teaching artist gives a slideshow presentation describing the process used in the project.

• Mural boards are set up on easels with cloths covering them. 
• Project journals are displayed on the side tables.
• Mural panels are unveiled one by one with individual students chosen by the teachers (often the scribes) reading the text to the audience using a microphone.
• At the end of the presentation time is allowed for the audience to view the murals up close and peruse the project journals.
• The panels will be installed following the unveiling celebration.