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All About the Ocean: By the Numbers
Dyella Bryant, 7th Grade
Drakes Creek Middle School
Infographic
In technology class we were using Canva to design various things such as movie posters and logos. One of the options you could choose to create was an infographic. The topic I chose to research being the ocean. I chose this topic because it was vast, which meant I had what felt like an unlimited amount of unique information to work with.
When researching for my infographic, I visited numerous websites all related to my topic.
I used Canva.com to create my project.
To create my infographic, I used the program, Canva. To begin, I logged in using my school account. I went to create a design, and chose an infographic. After I chose this, I was given a blank infographic to work with. I then went to the elements section of Canva, and began creating my infographic. I used multiple things such as basic shapes and images to create a background. Then, I centered the title of my infographic at the top, which was, “All About the Ocean: By the Numbers.”
Below the title, I made several text boxes and titled them Sea Creatures, Whales, Plants, Jellyfish, Fish, and Sharks so that I could neatly display all my information. I created more text boxes below those to add a number that would represent the information; and one under the number to give a description. In order to fill up empty space, I added graphics corresponding to each section of information. This made my infographic look more professional and lively.
For my title, I used the font Fredoka One at size 66.2. For the font of each of my sections, I used Fredoka One again, all of them being size 32. For my descriptions, I used Fredoka One at size 22, and finally, for the numbers, I used the font Gently Sans at size 74.2. When all of this was completed, I added my sources in the bottom left corner of my infographic.
When creating my infographic with Canva, I learned that there was an extensive amount of materials that you could work with. I learned that you could add effects to your text to make it look less flat, and that you could layer images to make things look neater. In addition to this, I figured out how to remove backgrounds of images, and discovered the ability to change the transparency of graphics.
I organized my infographic so that everything would have a certain place. The reason I chose the colors for my infographic was because it was about the ocean. I used multiple colors such as blue, light orange, and shades of green because that's what I thought of when I thought of the ocean. Blue being the water; light orange being sand; and green being plants such as seaweed. In general, I tried to make the ocean theme apparent. I would add images revolving around the text so that anyone who viewed it could have an example regarding the information.
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All images were stock images from the Canva Edu library.
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