You are competing in a Vermont Poster Competition that depicts for others the character traits that make up the ideal friend.

Your task is to create a poster for use for the Vermont Friendship day. This poster needs to include a picture of friends doing something together either form the Internet or you can draw it. It also needs to include characteristics of what makes a good friend and some type of friendship slogan/message. Some questions you might want to think of are :

What are important characteristics to look for in a friend?

What kinds of things can hurt a friendship?

What do you look for in a friend?

What kind of friend are you?

Dealing with Feelings

The Friendship Page

The Friends and Friendship Web.

What is Friendship

You will begin in your group of three by brainstorming and discussing the following questions with your group:

What do you already know about being a good friend?

What do you already know that helps you to keep a friend?

What gets in your way of being a good friend?

Next you will need to pick jobs from the following list:

1. Computer Person

Has hands on the computer

Listen to teammates

2. Recorder Person

Has hands on the pencil and group paper

Takes notes

Listen to teammates

3. Artist

Helps teammates by asking and answering questions

Designs image for the poster using everybody's ideas

You can return to any area by clicking on "back up"

Be a good teammate and have fun

Standard 3.1 - Using Technology to do Research

Needs work	Almost there	Good job	WOW!
Didn't find information on the Internet	Found information on the Internet and gathered 2 characteristics	Found information on the Internet and gathered at least 5 characteristics	Found ideas on the Internet and gathered more than 5 characteristics

Standard 3.1 - Team work

Needs work	Almost there	Good Job	WOW!
Had trouble being part of the group	Worked well on team most of the time	Worked well on the team all the time	Was a leader and helped others to work as a team

Friends are really important to each and everyone of us. To make friends and keep friends requires work. Friendship is a relationship. Through this project you have now learned what is important to remember to make friends and also to be a good friend. Please find a place in the school to hang your poster.