Infographics

Several weeks ago Ms. Holland and Ms. Shinn, AHS media specialists, approached me about my Marketing Principles classes helping to promote Teen Read Week. Along with my fourth block we brainstormed ideas and narrowed it down to a few that  I felt we could manage. One of those ideas was my own and it was to produce an Infographic about reading and literacy. It has been a goal of mine to implement a project based around Infographics as I have wanted to learn how to create them myself. After grouping students to work on various Teen Read Week projects I sat down with the Infographic group and I explained that an Infographic is a visual display of statistical information and informational text. In the essence of time I assigned each student a topic and provided them with at least one link pertaining to that topic,  i.e.:

1 . Literacy statistics – economic and social

2. The neuroscience of reading

3. How reading affects memory

4. Why it is important to read to children beginning at a young age

5. How e-readers have affected reading – both positive and negative

The students researched the site I provided and summarized pertinent information for me to use in the collaborative Infographic. They were also asked to search and find at least one additional source for their topic.

Not only did the students work together to research information pertaining directly to the importance of reading and literacy  - they used summarizing strategies to sort through and filter the information.

Here is a small .png version of the Infographic.

Here is a link to the Infrographic:

http://www.gliffy.com/go/publish/3972225/

Mrs. Shinn also has resources on Infographics:
Pinterest Board:  http://pinterest.com/cshinn4/infographics/

LiveBinder:  http://www.livebinders.com/play/play?id=599437&backurl=/shelf/my

~Sarah Beth Robbins, AHS Career and Technical Education Teacher