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Canva: Make an Infographic

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Main Website:

https://www.canva.com/

Activity Website:

https://www.canva.com/

Activity Description

Students will make an infographic to illustrate a topic of their choice.

Use of the site is free, but if you use their images, some of them have a fee. There are plenty of images that are free and you can upload your own pictures to use.

Preparation

Go to canva.com
Open an account
Go to the Infographic Maker
Click on Education
Choose a template
Create a simple infographic as a sample for your class.
Print the example document, How to Make an Infographic Using Canva.

How-To

Discuss with students how they can present information to others. (discussions, presentations)
Show Canva as a place to design Graphics to help with presenting information.
As a group, brainstorm a current topic.
Gather images using Google or some other search engine. Save them to the Pictures folder on the computer.
Open Canva and demonstrate how to make an infographic using the images gathered.
Assign student groups to make an infographic to share with the class.
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Teacher Tips

Go through the creation process yourself ahead of time to be able to demonstrate the process easily to the students.
Preview this article on 10 ways to use Canva in the classroom.
They will then present their topic using the infographic to explain to the class what they learned. Canva's motto is Empowering the world to design. At the site, you can learn to design as well as use their tools to make a vast variety of materials including logos, presentations, photo collages, menus, posters, cards, and infographics. You can illustrate social media posts, documents such as letterheads, certificates, and resumes, blogging, flyers, postcards, invitations, and advertisements.

More Ways

There is no end to the ways you can use Canva. You can use it with flyers, presentations, certificates, banners, online illustrations for social media and the list goes on and on.

Program Areas

ESL: English as a Second Language

Levels

All Levels

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Warm-up

Engagement Enhancement Extension

Show the students your sample infographic. Have them brainstorm why you created this infographic. Ask students to summarize the topic and draw some conclusions about your infographic.

Some questions you might ask are:

What elements work in the graphic?
What are the key data points, are there drastic changes in the data?
What data seems to be surprising or unusual?
Does the graphic seem to show an obvious narrative?
What is useful about putting information in this format?
Why would this be better than just showing the formulas or using just a bar graph?
What different pieces of information are included in this infographic?
What information was included in this poster that allows non-science people to understand the content?
Write an abstract about what it is about (two or three sentences that highlights the purpose of the infographic.)
Look at these examples and identify what you like/don’t like about each one.
How are colors used differently in each one? Are some colors more powerful than others?
How are objects displayed on each one? Do sizes of the objects matter in showing the intended information?
How could colors, sizes, and kinds of objects be used to mislead people away from the data?
Make notes about what you notice and like/don’t like about the infographics. you will be creating some throughout the year and these notes will remind you of what you visually like to see and will serve as a starting point for you.

Introduction

Today you are going to create an infographic.

Presentation

Engagement Enhancement

1. Divide the students into groups and have them get a group account with Canva. Use either a school email address or a gmail address.

2. Have them decide what type of infographic they are going to make. You can use an in class reading, a character analysis, a grammar point, etc.

3. Give them the handout on how to make an infographic.

4. Have them plan the infographic before trying to make one.

Evaluation

Engagement Enhancement Extension

Students will present their infographics to the class. The infographic can be evaluated with a 1 point rubric. Here is an example of one used with a beginning ESL class.

Application

Extension

Students will be able to create and use infographics as a way to graphically display information at work, home and school.