Using Infographics in a Lesson

I recently learned about using infographics while teaching a lesson. If you don't know what infographics are, infographics are graphic representations of information that help our students visualize an idea (Lamb, Johnson 2014). I decided to make a lesson using infographics and share it with my fellow teachers!

First I had to pick a topic or standard I wanted to teach. I thought something that would be really important to teach and easily displayed through infographics would be healthy living. So I went to the NCDPI and looked for standards. I decided I wanted to teach kindergarten. After looking through some things, I decided that I would teach the essential standard K.NPA.1: Understand MyPlate as a tool for selecting nutrious food and the Clarifying Objective K.NPA.1.1: Classify foods by groups in my plate. To look more into this specific standards you can click here to be linked directly to the page that outlines the standards for healthful living in grades K-2.

Since I knew that main goal was to learn about MyPlate, I used an online tool called Easelly to create an infographic with my own MyPlate. To see my infographic you can use this link:  https://www.easel.ly/infographic/y7ilz1.

My main goal of this infographic was to use it as a part of my lesson as the teacher. This infographic can be used to introduce the topic and what is to be learned and then can also be posted in the classroom for students to use as a references in the future. As for the students, since the main goal is to be able to classify food into groups using MyPlate, they will use the visual of the MyPlate as well as the information on the infographic to group food they know into the proper categories. They can also use this infographic in the future when making healthy eating decisions.

I thought this infographic was a helpful tool especially for students in kindergarten. Since they are so young being able to have a visual up in the classroom to see will help them create an idea in their head and help them remember the information.