Culture & Country Poster – All About Me Project

Students create a country-and-culture poster with drawings and writing about places, food, clothing and traditions. A completed example shows how to use the labeled panels.
Grades
Grades 3–5
Pages
12
File type
PDF
Preparation
Print ready

Updated Apr 23, 2024

Subject
Social Studies, Research
Topic
Culture poster, Country research
Resource types
Posters, Worksheets
Preparation
Print ready
Standards
W.4.7

Product description

From the author

  • Introduction- This is a Happy Culture Day Poster that your students will love. This poster will allow students to write about and celebrate their country and culture. These will make a great display on your bulletin board or in the hallway. Students can work on this activity in class or it can be assigned as a take home project.

  • Order, Outline and Steps- very simple, just choose which template you want to use and print. Alternatively you can also print various templates and have your student choose.

  • Grades or Ages- can be used from 2nd grade to upper 4/5th grades.

  • Implementation Format- can be implemented during special culture days celebrated or research projects.

  • How to use and Variations- this can be used at any time of the school year, especially during "international/culture week or day" at school.

  • File Types- this file comes as a PDF that can be printed on a standard sheet of 8.5"x11' paper. However, you can also print on a tabloid paper if you wish.

  • Total Number of Pages- 8 pages are included

  • Student Templates included:

    • Template 1 reads- All About My Culture

    • Template 2 reads- Country ________

    • Template 3 reads- Happy International Week

    • Template 4 reads- Happy Culture Day

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Draw the outline and the flag of a chosen country accurately enough to be recognised

  • Name and illustrate a traditional item of clothing and a food associated with that country

  • Explain in a sentence why a chosen place or custom matters to them, using the written prompts on the All About My Culture version

Teaching tips

  • Show the completed U.S.A. example before students begin, and discuss how to fill the labeled panels.

  • Choose the plain layout for a general country project or the International Week and Culture Day banners for those events.

  • Offer the All About My Culture version when students are ready to complete longer sentence prompts.

Skills covered

  • Presenting country research in a fixed layout — students fill labelled panels for flag, food, traditional clothing, a holiday or tradition and a famous place on a single page.

  • Drawing to communicate information — panels invite pictures, including the country outline and flag.

  • Short explanatory writing — the All About My Culture version asks students to finish "It tastes ___" and "My favorite place in my country is ___ because".

Good to know

Questions teachers ask about this resource

How do the poster versions differ from one another?

The core layout stays the same — country, outline, flag, greeting, traditional clothing, food, a holiday or tradition and a famous place. Two versions add event banners reading "Happy International Week!" and "Happy Culture Day!" and open with "I am from:", while the "All About My Culture" version replaces several picture panels with sentence stems to complete.

What does the completed example show?

One page is filled in for the U.S.A.: the country named at the top, "Independence Day~July 4th" under holidays and traditions, and "The Statue of Liberty (New York)" as the famous place, with "HELLO! :)" written into the greeting panel.

How much writing does the poster ask for?

On most versions, single words and short phrases inside labelled boxes, which keeps it workable for younger children. The All About My Culture version asks for more, with stems such as "It tastes ___" and "My favorite place in my country is ___ because" that turn the page into a short piece of writing.

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Curriculum

Standards, concepts & topics

Standards

  • W.4.7

Core concepts

  • Cultures

  • Countries

  • Flags

  • Poster project

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