The Four C's in STEM: Creativity with Infographics

Creativity is one of the 4C's and a necessary skill for our 21st century learners.  Using creativity tools that leverage your STEM projects is key to incorporating the skill rather than having to teach it separately.

Infographics are a nice twist for students as they are high-interest, teach the importance of summarizing and synthesizing data and stretch students' creativity skills.  On the surface, infographics just looks like a whole lot of fun.  Looking deeper shows the time and effort that goes into producing a product like this both with it's visual allure and the information that it shares.

I have posted on Picktochart  before, so this time around, I'll focus on  another valuable tool for creativity in STEM: easel.ly 

easel.ly is an easy to use, free, online infographics platform. Creating a free account allows the user:

• access to a decent number of ready-made templates
• the ability to start from scratch if you can't find something you like
• a really nice selection of built-in graphics
• a mechanism to upload your own graphics
•  shapes, backgrounds and fonts for make your infographic unique
• to save their progress/product as a jpg, png, pdf, or svg

By stretching their creativity skills, students can begin to perform at the higher levels of Blooms Taxonomy by designing and constructing infographics.

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