What are infographics and how do they help?
Infographics are those attractively displayed facts and figures that are commonly used to illustrate statistics. They can be in the form of time lines, flow charts, marked maps, pie charts, bar graphs, or vein diagrams. Its sort of like a visual representation of numeric data which makes it easy for the reader to understand the numbers involved. They are attractive and easy to remember as compared to just trying to learn up facts and figures by heart. They are used often in magazines and newspapers and can help improve the understanding of a subject at a glance. That is why its a good idea to use inforgraphics as a teaching aid in the homeschool classroom.
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How can you make your own personalized infographics?
Thanks to the number of websites online that allow you to make infographics based on your own data it is very easy to come up with attractive infographics. All you need to do is have your facts and figures ready then fill them into the form online and viola, you have a personalized infographic ready for use. You will need to pay some attention to the color scheme and font sizes so that the end result is a well represented and attractive one. Also remember not to try and cram too much data into a single infographic. That can make it confusing to understand, specially for a child. Just keep it simple and stick to the main facts you want to convey.
Using infographics in a lesson in the homeschool class
Once you have discussed the data represented on the infographic you may want to encourage your children to draw conclusions from this data. Have them reference the facts that have been provided in the visual teaching aid to support the conclusions that they have drawn. This will help them with developing an ability to truly understand what certain statistics really mean. If they enjoy working on it you may even ask them to develop an infographic of their own. Ask them to research the facts and come up with a visual representation based on them using the free online tools to create their own infographic.
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