1. Introducing infographics to students:
2. Infographics Tutorial:
3. Student Activity:
Group Activity: Give each group an infographic (see samples). Have them discuss and record the following:
What did you notice?
How are they organized?
What was easy to read? difficult?
Why would someone present their information in this manner?
What did you notice?
How are they organized?
What was easy to read? difficult?
Why would someone present their information in this manner?
4. Choose a topic or subject.
- The first time, the teacher should choose a subject or topic.
- Start with an idea/concept...do you know enough about it to represent it? If not, learn more!
- Design a rough draft to plan your representation of information. See Infographic Planning Page in OneNote!
- Decide on visually pleasing colors, clip art/images, and font.
- Leave space at the bottom of your infographic to cite your sources.
5. Share more student samples (see samples tab).
6. Rubric & Project Guidelines
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Guidelines
- Infographic supports one major detail and includes additional facts and information to support and provide understanding.
- Make sure it is clear and concise.
- Data and explanation are found in the infographic (do not use a legend). How can you include both qualitative and quantitative data?
- Cite data sources and provide links to information for clarification and fact checking.
- Be unique (bar chart, line chart, and pie charts)
- Use illustrations and visuals wherever possible to add meaning and interest
- Be sure to include:
- Source data, so anyone can check your facts
- Designer’s name, always give credit to the artist/illustrator/programmer/designer•
- Original image/article address, so anyone who sees the image can find your original article.
7. Gather Infomation & Data
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Always keep in mind: What makes an effective infographic?
The best infographics are “simple enough to read but creative enough that to make you look twice.”
Steps to create your own infographic:
The best infographics are “simple enough to read but creative enough that to make you look twice.”
Steps to create your own infographic:
- Know the information you want to represent first.
- Search sources: videos, textbooks, and internet cites for articles about your topic.
- Read and find interesting pieces of data that could be changed (or converted) into numerical data or statistics.
- Classify 'like' types of data into groups.
- You can ask the following questions (examples):
- How has the information changed over time? (use timeline, line chart)
- How is the information different based on geographic location (use maps)?
- How do the numbers compare (use bar graph, pie chart, individual blocks/clipart and ten-, hundred-blocks, use same graphic in proportionate size differences)?
- How does information differ or overlap in some areas (use Venn Diagram)?
- Use a theme with supporting images & icons.
- Use same colors to connect information.
- Use proximity of objects to group information together.
- Leave a section/space towards the bottom of page to include your data or information sources.
- Finalise Now you have your final concept you can go about putting the finishing touches in, as well as any last minute refining that needs to be done. With infographics this usually means adding highlights/textures to really make the graphics pop
8. Create Infographic & Additional Components:
- Depending on the program that you are using, you may want to create or edit pieces of your infographic in other programs.
- For example, you may be creating your infographic in Word, but use Bubbl.us to creat a brainstorm.
- There are a variety of tools under resources that can be used to add 'flare' to your infographic.