A design tool for posters, presentations, videos and documents. Canva for Education is free for schools and lets the teacher run class accounts.
Creative Amplify
Each student builds a Canva collage about a place in school from three photographs, two of their own drawings and a 20-second sound recording of that place.
Groups design two versions of a vaping-awareness poster for Grade 6 in Canva, test both with the whole year group through an anonymous Microsoft Form, and redesign from what the responses show.
Creative Replace
Each child photographs six to eight colourful details around the school grounds and arranges them into a titled collage in Canva.
Students photograph their own line drawing of a tin, bring it into Canva and build a four-panel Warhol-style repeat with a different flat colour scheme in each panel.
Each student designs a logo for a fictional sustainable trainer brand and lays out one sheet showing it at three sizes, in three colour treatments and in single-colour black.
Each student writes and lays out a one-page leaflet in Canva persuading visiting Grade 5 pupils to join one of the school's Grade 6 clubs, printed for the open evening.
Each student designs a one-page notice in Canva, dated 1872, in which Titus Salt's mill invites Bradford workers to move to Saltaire, using five accurate features of the village and one of its rules.
Students make a one-page guide that explains each line of a fictional apprentice's payslip, from gross pay and tax code to National Insurance and take-home pay.
Each child designs a fact card in Canva for one of ten materials, with a drawing, its state at room temperature and its melting temperature, ready to print for a class ordering game.
Each student makes a six-panel comic in Canva following one carbon atom from a bus exhaust, through a stoma and a chloroplast, into starch, into a caterpillar and back into the air.
This page is one of a growing set of PICRAT examples by cell, subject and grade. Page maintained by Andy Perryer.