Student posters on chemistry topics

One of the nice ways of getting students to think about chemistry, especially at introductory levels, is to have them present on something topical that can be related to their core chemistry. This can be useful for chemistry programmes with specific contexts-for example medicinal chemistry, forensic chemistry, etc. Several institutions use the idea of chemistry posters, whereby students prepare a poster on a chemistry topic and present it to their peers and staff either in person or virtually. 

In my experience of doing this, I have found that students either do well in the graphical element of poster preparation or in the inclusion of relevant and appropriate chemistry. To have both in the same poster is less common.

With an accompanying handout and video, Michael Seery suggests methods to make posters a more effective teahcing and learning method, and provides a wide range of poster topics and sources for students.