Students develop a mood board to gather visual elements that represent an idea, theme, or mood.
The method supports students’ ability to articulate their thoughts and create a visual overview that can be used for inspiration, planning, or presenting.
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Give or let students choose a topic, theme or mood they want to illustrate with a moodboard.
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Students collect visual elements such as images, colors, text snippets, quotes, drawings, and more that relate to their chosen topic.
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They organize and compose the elements on their moodboard to create a visual whole that supports their idea.
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Students present their moodboard to the class or a group of students, explaining their choice of elements.
Didactic tips
- Optionally, give students a framework or a set of keywords to help them focus their moodboard.
- The mood board can be used as a visual brainstorming method to concretize ideas at the beginning of a project.
- Students can compare their moodboards and identify common features and differences in their visual expressions.
- If students create their moodboards digitally, they can comment on and give feedback on each other’s boards online.
- The moodboard can then be used as inspiration for further work with the topic, for example in a creative product or a written assignment.
- This method is used, among other things, in activity XXX