Social Studies 8
Michael Stein-Ross, our Social Studies 8 Teacher, came to me with the idea of having his students create infographics. He was having them devise their own definition of history, and wanted them to be able to give visual form to these ideas. Infographics have become a natural outgrowth of both the information revolution and the increasingly visual nature of our ever-expanding media universe. They vary in quality and eloquence, but the act of creating one provided a nice vehicle for exploring how to communicate an idea or message visually.
Below is a slideshow that walks you through our lesson sequence, and here are a couple of great resources we found along the way:
"Teaching with Infographics: Places to Start" from the New York Times Learning Network
"A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods" from visual-literacy.org.
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