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Lesson overview
Lesson overview
Watch the video for an introduction to the lesson.
Activity 1 - What is an infographic?
Activity 1 - What is an infographic?
An infographic is the combination of two words: information and graphic. It’s a visual representation of data – like a chart or a diagram.
A good infographic can help you simplify a complicated or boring topic into a captivating experience. It also assists people in improving their understanding of the information by using our ability to take in lots of visual information to see patterns and trends.
We often use infographics to promote a message or get people to think about issues.
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Task 1
Task 1
Read Issue 6 T4L kids Dynamic Data to find out more on infographics, collecting data and using technology to create infographics.
Watch the video, What is an infographic?
What Is An Infographic?
Duration: 2:15
Task 2
Task 2
Look closely at these 2 examples of infographics.
Click on each image to see them close up.
You should notice:
that the information is blocked in sections
that there is plenty of empty space around the information and images
that the font is easy to read
that the colours used are complementary
that only a few colours are used.
All of these are design decisions made to make it visually easy for the person reading to comprehend the information quickly.
(c) Brydie Sheehan Used with permission.
Activity 2 - Designing your own infographic
Activity 2 - Designing your own infographic
Think about an important message you would like to communicate to others about and design an infographic to get this message across.
Step 1
Step 1
Choose your topic of interest.
Pick something that you will be able to find or gather data on.
You could pick something related to sport, gaming, the books you read or TV you watch, your favourite animal or a social justice issue you care about.
Step 2
Step 2
Find some data to use in your infographic.
You can:
gather data from online sources
collect your own data via a survey or poll.
Adapted from Sven Manguard (CC BY-SA 3.0) and Public domain images
Websites you can gather information from
SBS Census data explorer - An interactive tool to search for data gathered from the Australian Census in 2016. You can compare data across different places such as all of Australia to NSW or your own town.
Suncorp Super Netball - You can see data on different aspects of Netball.
NRL Statistics - Lots of different data on individual players and teams
Ozharvest - Food waste facts
eSafety Commissioner - Article with information on the digital lives of aussie teens.
The World Factbook - Lots of data on everything related to countries, regions and oceans.
Footywire - AFL statistics
Gathering your own data
If you decide to collect your own data you will need to design a survey and send it out to your class to complete. Below are two videos on how to create surveys in either Microsoft Forms or Google Forms, choose the one you mainly use at school.
Gathering data with Google Forms
Duration: 4:30
Gathering data with Microsoft Forms
Duration: 4:10
Step 3
Step 3
Create your infographic.
You can create it online using Venngage or Canva (if your teacher has set you up with an account already)
You can create it offline using A4 paper, coloured pencils and textas, your ruler and pair of compasses to neatly lay out and draw your design.
Venngage
You can set up a free Venngage account using your school Google account
Watch How to Make an Infographic in 5 Steps [INFOGRAPHIC DESIGN GUIDE + EXAMPLES] on YouTube for help using Venngage. (Specific information on statistical infographics is at the 10 minute mark.)
Canva
To access Canva, your teacher will need to set up an account for your class.
Login to your Canva account using the details given to you by your teacher.
Activity 3 - Share and compare
Activity 3 - Share and compare
Once you have completed your infographic, choose another student to swap with.
Use the Six thinking hats Google Slides template to critically review their infographic while they do the same for yours.
Click on the image link to open the template in a new tab.
Click the Use Template button to create a copy you can edit.
Share your final reflection with each other.
Note: Remember to be positive in your conversation as it’s all about improving the infographic to make your message clearer.
Activities too easy?
Activities too easy?
Note: The same two extension activities are shared across Lessons 1, 2 and 3 as they are both significant pieces of work.
Complete an activity on creating different types of graphs using the Creating different types of graphs activity Google Doc.
Click on the link to open the file in a new tab.
Click on the Use template button to create a copy for you to use.
Access the Stage 5 Mathematics – Week C unit on Single variable data analysis. This unit covers the concepts of: mean, median, mode and range, quartiles and interquartile range, box plots and standard deviation.
Handing in your work
Handing in your work
Don't forget to hand in the work you completed today!
Your teacher will have told you to do one of the following:
Upload any digital documents you created and any photos you took of your written work to your Learning Management system (MS Teams, Google Classroom for example).
Email any digital documents you created and any photos you took of your written work to your teacher.
Make sure you keep any hand written work you did in your exercise book or folder as your teacher may need to see these when you are back in class.
Student reflection
Student reflection
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