Intro to Infographics

Goal:Visually explain a scientific phenomenon.

Agenda:
Warmup
Why Infographics?
How to Infographic
Brainstorm
Create

Warmup
With your group, look at the following 4 infographics.

• 70 Years of Batman Evolution
• Facebooking Your Parents
• +50 Ways of Visualizing BP’s Dark Mess
• Then/Now: Same Camping Gear Essentials, But Better

Discuss the following questions:

1. What strategies were used to present the information?
2. Which infographic was best? Why?

Why Infographics?

Watch this TED talk (start at ~7:45) and think about why data visualization is useful. 

How To Infographic
In creating infographics, there are a few strategies and tools to employ. Read about them here:

• LATCH
• 8 Types of Infographics
• Inverted Pyramid

Brainstorm

You will create infographics to answer your museum project question. Grab a whiteboard and answer the following questions with your project group:

1. What are all of the possible phenomena you need to explain to answer your third grader's question?
2. Which information, facts, and data are essential to include? Which aren’t?
3. What colors and layout works best in sharing the information?
4. What graphs and graphics best convey information and data to the viewer?
5. What is the order, or flow, of information?

Create

You will each create a draft of an infographic for your project individually in Notability. Work on that now.