Visual Literacy Lesson Plan: Making an Infographic from Census data

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Stella Herzig

A newly edited (2025) step-by-step lesson plan for an activity that addresses three frameworks and produces an asset, the infographic, the student-creators can use again, if they wish. It alerts students to authoritative data from the U.S. Census bureau. It can be useful for a one-shot session in the IL101 classroom or a library workshop introduction to visual literacy and presentation of data.

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Resource Type(s)

Lesson Plan

Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed

Information Creation as Process

Information Has Value

Research as Inquiry

Discipline(s)

Multidisciplinary

Type of Institution

Community or Junior College

College

University

Scope

Classroom-level

License Assigned

CC Attribution-ShareAlike License CC-BY-SA

Links

Infographic Creation Activity using Infogram and US Census data

https://sau-my.sharepoint.com/:w:/g/personal/sh0042004_sau_edu/EYLAKlB8NYlFt3BQeaiY7X0BMTv08F4MYsl701whGoq5Nw?e=rs85ip

Topics

data literacy

first-year students

primary sources

Other Attribution Information

Stella Herzig, MLS and St Ambrose University Library

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