Desktop Publishing Lesson Plans

Even classrooms and schools with limited technology resources can integrate desktop publishing into the classroom. Use the desktop publishing lesson plans for three common desktop published documents -- business cards, brochures, and resumes to teach visual communication and design as well as almost any subject normally taught in the K-12 classroom.

These desktop publishing lesson plans rely on traditional methods of research (although access to Internet resources is a plus). The findings of the students work is then assembled into a simple desktop published document. You can adapt these projects to almost any grade/age level. Projects are written as a series of desktop publishing lesson plans with the student as the intended audience. There are two lesson plans for each document. Additional notes to the teacher are at the beginning of each project. Customize these lesson plans and instructions as needed.

Helpful Prerequisites to Using These Lesson Plans

• What is desktop publishing?
• Choose desktop publishing software
• How to do desktop publishing

Not involved in teaching/education? Use the exercises and resources described here to help you build your graphic design portfolio, show your range, flexibility, and creativity, and to stimulate ideas for client work.

• Business Card Lesson Plans
  How does a person, business, or organization adequately describe themselves in a 3.5 x 2 inch space?

• Brochure Lesson Plans
  The brochure can inform, educate, persuade, explain, or instruct.

• Resume Lesson Plans
  A life's worth of experience and education summarized in a single page -- that's a resume.