Infographics for a Sustainable Future
[3 STEM Clock Hours] This lively design practicum will bring together secondary CTE educators, Media Arts teachers, professional graphic artists, and aspiring student designers to answer the question: How can we use infographics to advance a sustainable future?
Time & Location
Jan 09, 2021, 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Zoom Meeting
About the Event
Workshop participants will be learning critical content related to sustainable community conditions at the same time they are applying visual communication strategies to better communicate those conditions and what people can do to improve them. We will work on three tasks First, we will analyze the work of King County’s awesome graphic arts team around equity, climate change, public health, wastewater, stormwater, and salmon recovery. Second, we will identify needs for improving infographic communication related to community sustainability data on the websites of our city, school district, local Rotary Club, Kiwanis Club, and Chamber of Commerce. Third, we will develop a series of lesson plans for producing and proposing needed infographics.
Job profiles will be shared as part of Sustainability Ambassadors’ Green Jobs Youth Pathways website. Participants in this workshop will come away with not only lesson ideas and resources for career connected learning related to media arts, but a…