There’s a reason why the saying “A picture is worth 1,000 words” exists. Incorporating graphic design into the classroom is valuable because it’s an engaging way for students to acquire or remember new information. According to the following infographic, visuals are processed 60,000 faster than text. Therefore, using graphics with students in the classroom could allow teachers to present a great deal more information in a much shorter amount of time.
The same infographic states that people remember 80% of what they see and do, as opposed to only 10% of what they hear and 20% of what they read. By including more visuals, such as graphic design, in the classroom, teachers are better supporting their students.
The first signs of graphic design appeared in 79 AD with merchants advertising goods, and our country spends approximately 195 billion dollars per year on advertising. Sufficed to say, advertising is a field that seems to grow every year. I would like to find a way to help my first-graders learn basic design elements early on so that they can create visuals themselves. We are ending the school year with an economics unit in social studies to help the students learn about goods and services, and we will also introduce money in math around the same time. We will have a classroom economy where the students will perform jobs to earn money that they can save up and spend on different items or activities. I plan on asking the students to create a graphic design in Keynote to propose their ideas for jobs that they want to complete in order to earn money in our classroom. They will be required to create an image that shows 3 jobs they would like to perform, along with the amount of money each job should be worth. We will vote on which jobs we think would benefit our classroom economy the most, and those posters will be hung in our classroom for the students to reference throughout the unit.
If you’d like to learn more about the value of graphic design, please check out the infographic referenced in this post! It has a ton more interesting information that I didn’t share.
The same infographic states that people remember 80% of what they see and do, as opposed to only 10% of what they hear and 20% of what they read. By including more visuals, such as graphic design, in the classroom, teachers are better supporting their students.
The first signs of graphic design appeared in 79 AD with merchants advertising goods, and our country spends approximately 195 billion dollars per year on advertising. Sufficed to say, advertising is a field that seems to grow every year. I would like to find a way to help my first-graders learn basic design elements early on so that they can create visuals themselves. We are ending the school year with an economics unit in social studies to help the students learn about goods and services, and we will also introduce money in math around the same time. We will have a classroom economy where the students will perform jobs to earn money that they can save up and spend on different items or activities. I plan on asking the students to create a graphic design in Keynote to propose their ideas for jobs that they want to complete in order to earn money in our classroom. They will be required to create an image that shows 3 jobs they would like to perform, along with the amount of money each job should be worth. We will vote on which jobs we think would benefit our classroom economy the most, and those posters will be hung in our classroom for the students to reference throughout the unit.
If you’d like to learn more about the value of graphic design, please check out the infographic referenced in this post! It has a ton more interesting information that I didn’t share.
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