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Social Studies Fair Mini-Backboard

Social Studies Fair Mini-Backboard. Your Social Studies Fair project includes a mini-backboard that is worth 50 points (1/4 of your total project grade!).

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Social Studies Fair Mini-Backboard

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  1. Social Studies Fair Mini-Backboard

  2. Your Social Studies Fair project includes a mini-backboard that is worth 50 points (1/4 of your total project grade!). • From your research papers and mini-backboards, we will decide who gets the honor of competing in the McKinley Social Studies Fair, so make sure you do your very best work! • If you are selected to compete in the school fair, you will turn this mini-backboard into a regular size backboard.

  3. Your mini-backboard should be a half-size posterboard. You do not need to fold it, but you should use a ruler and marker to separate it into three sections like a real backboard. The middle section should be bigger than the side sections.

  4. Top Ten Tips for Backboards • Following these guidelines will ensure that your mini-backboard looks great (and that you earn all the points in the neatness and layout category).

  5. Your title should appear in either the top center or upper left-hand corner of your board. This is where the human eye naturally goes when it first looks at something. • Only two or three fonts should be used. The title font can be fancy, but choose easy to read fonts for the subtitles and the information. • Title—fancy font is okay • Sub-titles—a little fancy, but easy to read • Information—Arial or Times New Roman

  6. Choose a color scheme for your backboard of around 3-4 complementary colors. Too many colors will make your backboard distracting; too few colors will make your backboard boring. • All pictures need a caption. All pictures should be framed with colored paper.

  7. The best backboards have one picture or image that is the dominant picture and is much larger than the others. The smaller pictures are grouped around the bigger one. • Pictures should “look” toward the center of the backboard. For example, if you have a picture of a person who is facing left, you should put that picture on the right hand side so he is looking toward the middle.

  8. 7. Remember the word “picture” doesn’t always have to mean photograph or portrait. You can include charts, graphs, diagrams, maps, or other images to your backboard. 8. Your information should not be written in complete sentences (and should DEFINITELY not be copied and pasted from the internet). No one wants to stand in front of your board and read paragraphs--they can read your report if they want to do that! Use something like bullet points to show off your important information.

  9. 9. Use a glue stick to put your items on the poster. Regular glue can leave clumpy marks. Staples look even worse than regular glue. Tape usually does not hold that well, but if you choose to use tape, it should not be seen! 10. Empty spaces should not be filled with squiggles, hearts, stars, polka dots, or other things to fill up the space. All that does is make the board messy and hard to read.

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