Vision Board or Your Future Self Meme Contest

Win a chance to have your Meme broadcast on the television broadcast.  Using the instructions and rubric below come up with a Meme that reflects your future goals. (2) winning selection will be chosen each week for the TV Broadcast.  

Submit your Meme on Thursdays each week by email to Mrs. Bridges.
Limit (1) submission per student/ month
Inspire yourself to reach your goals by creating a vision board in Google Drawings or any other drawing program
Achieve the following objectives: 
  • Articulate areas of your life that you would like to improve, focus on, or call attention to.
  • Write text and select images that support your vision or goal.
  • Combine images, words, and shapes to create a vision board.
  • Include representation of your future career choice or education pathway
Answer the following essential questions:
  • ​How can I motivate myself to reach goals at school, work, and in my personal life?
  • What aspects of myself would I like to improve or focus on for a period of time?
  • How can a digital inspiration board help me motivate myself?
Internalize the following enduring understanding:
  • I can create a digital tool and use it for daily inspiration to achieve my goals.​

Video- Assistance (35 min)

1 Introduction to Create a Vision Board
5 min
Students are introduced to the lesson, create a new drawing, give it a title, and change its dimensions.
2 Add a Background Color and Choose Two or Three Areas of Focus
10 min
Students add a background color and choose two or three areas of their life to focus on for their vision board.
3 Use Word Art 
10 min
Students create Word Art for each of their focus areas, place the words on the canvas, and resize the text.
4 Find Images
10 min
Students find images that inspire them and complement their focus areas. They add the images to their canvas and resize them.
5 Create Shapes and Align Objects
5 min
Students create a shape to call attention to what they want to focus on the most and align the objects on their canvas.
6 Create a Vision Board Wrap-Up
5 min
Students wrap up the lesson and discover how the skills they learned can apply to other tasks.​