Four printed sheets of educational and creative writing and photography tips, including sections on writing exercises, photography tips, and youth development, laid out on a blue background.

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Educational series materials

educational series materials

The following materials are for you and your classes/groups to work and learn about the PYB process of starting, building and executing a yearbook.

Page from a Picaboo yearbook manual with daily instructions for building a yearbook in seven days, including tasks for each day from Monday to Saturday, with guidelines for design, editing, and publication.

Build a Yearbook in 7 Days

A page from Picaboo Yearbook Tools titled "Ladder Planning" for pre-educational schools. It provides guidelines for page allocations and layout planning for student portraits, academics, organization, sports, and advertising, with suggested percentages and methods for calculating total pages needed.

Ladder Planning

Pages from a yearbook with sections on marketing, advertising, social media, and personal messages.

Money Matters

Educational infographic on photography tips, including camera handling, expert advice, lighting, composition, and rule of thirds, with photos of children and a person at the beach.

Photography Tips

A printable template for yearbook theme development, including sections on theme definition, types, development checklist, and visual elements like color schemes and fonts.

Theme Development

Sample of a writing guide from Picaboo Yearbook featuring tips on how to write a yearbook, including sections like purpose of copy, avoiding errors, and including sidebars, with an example of a yearbook page.

Writing

A worksheet titled "Writing: Captions" by Picaboo Yearbooks with sections on brainstorming, facts, supplement, who, what, where, when, describing actions, specific details, and a caption checklist. It includes prompts for making a list, identifying facts, revealing facts, and writing a summary caption, with checkboxes for various caption elements.

Writing: Captions

A printable worksheet titled 'Writing Headlines' with sections for brainstorming, mixing it up, designing in mind, describing, and selecting the best sub-headline. Contains sample headlines and a headline checklist.

Writing: Headlines

Design guide for yearbook page layout with annotations highlighting headings, subheadings, photo margins, sidebar, and check list.

Yearbook Design

Person dressed as a king in a regal costume standing with one foot on a raised surface, crowd of people in the background, and a sports mascot in an orange uniform greeting a crowd at a parade or event.

Writing: Caption Exercise

A landscape-oriented webpage with blue header and white background, featuring sections about copyright, public domain, and creative commons licenses. The page includes headings, paragraphs of text, and decorative elements.

Copyright

A page from the PYB Yearbook Glossary with terms related to yearbook creation, including definitions for account manager, advertiser, attribution, AFP, binder board, and more, presented in a list format with white background and blue header.

PYB Yearbook Glossary

Screenshot of a tutorial guide on PSPA data portrait flow, with step-by-step instructions and numbered sections for importing data.

PSPA Data Portrait Flow

Instructions for dressing up portrait pages in a software program, including adding graphics, photos, and larger teacher photos, with example images of students and teachers.

Dressing Up Portrait Pages

A blank yearbook ladder diagram template with numbered rows and checkboxes for recording information on the left and right pages.

Ladder

Flowchart illustrating the PYB Process for yearbook production, including project creation, book layout, printing, quality inspection, packing, shipping, and the cover process, with a red highlighted note about the cover process.

The PYB Process

A tutorial guide with five steps on setting up a storefront online. Step 1: Log into your account and click the 'Settings' tab. Step 2: Choose a name for your storefront. Step 3: Select or create a design for your storefront. Step 4: Click on 'Book Settings' to plan the layout and pricing options. Step 5: Review the order and pricing options in the 'Summary and Distribution' section.

Setting Up the Storefront