School is out for the summer (in the United States at least), but that doesn’t mean teachers aren’t already gearing up for the next session. If you’re a teacher and you find yourself already bogged down in lesson plans and deciding how best to organize your classroom, here are a few ways that infographics can …
Are you using infographics to explain or teach the election? If not, you should be. The election is a treasure trove for infographics and data representation. There are so many things to analyze during election season–candidates, issues, numbers, polls, statistics–this is the infographic lover’s jackpot. Without visuals, we surely would drown. The 2016 election is …
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If you’re the English teacher or drama coach, you’re probably pretty up on your Hamlet and MacBeth. The rest of us–not so much. These works can be pretty daunting for students and mere mortals alike. Even with Sparknotes, Thugnotes, and reading Amazon reviews, the classics are tough to understand. They’re classics for a reason. Students …
Family tree infographic My students are reading “One hundred years of solitude” with another teacher, and they told me how difficult they find to read a book with so many characters, many of them sharing the same names. I remember that when I was in high school and we read the same book, I made …
This is a new game I designed for Brain Awareness Week. The player must draw a line from the Roman numerals of the cranial nerves to the place where they belong in the drawing, and then, draw a line from the origin of the cranial nerve to one of two options: motor or sensorial. The …
Looking for ways to include error analysis, one of the big CCSS mathematical practices, in a unit on Linear Programming. I gave each student a different linear program word problem and had them solve using Desmos graphing calculator (desmos.com). Once they had solved it to the best of their ability, they used Easelly to create …
This is the second time we have a poster competition, and this year’s theme is “The future of neuroscience”. I made an infographic to be posted on social media, because we need to start spreading the word about the contest. The students must make a poster about what they think is the future of neuroscience, …
Cell signaling is one of the most arid parts of the curriculum this semester, and my students have tons of papers to read of too many different subjects. I decided to be the cool teacher and instead of giving them 4 different papers to read (on top of everything else I already gave them to …
While teaching history of neuroscience to teenager undergrad biology students, one of the biggest challenges is to keep their attention for 60 minutes while talking about things that happened a long time ago. These young students are eager to learn about how the brain works, about the biological, chemical and electrical processes that shape who …
With the push on STEM and students collecting all kinds of data, my teacher colleagues often ask for ideas to allow students to present the data in different and more interesting ways. I often share the idea of using an infographic to display the students’ data. Infographics are everywhere! We see them used in TV …
Nowadays, nearly everything about anything can be found online and often in a much more appealing form than what’s typically found at school. Who’d want to pay attention to a drawn-out explanation, copying endless equations off a dusty blackboard, when they could have the essential points presented in plain language with a direct and real-time demonstration (possibly with some funky music in the background), all in a few minutes of a YouTube video?
Who says that sharing information can’t be beautiful, not only useful? Aesthetics in general is a big part of our lives, and we do respond to it consciously or not. The modern age we live in is all about feeding on information – everyone has it at the tip of their fingers.
