Images to help show relationships in content

Many of my students really benefit from visuals that help describe the connections of complex concepts. The acronyms -- ahem, initialisms -- that are in the crash course video (step 3 in the 1.4 International Climate Goals lesson) overwhelm my MLs in particular, and I drew this on the board this morning to help show relationships between the various groups.

How else do you show relationships between concepts in your courses? Are there other everyday visuals that you use to create connections within the content?

Umbrella of UN groups on climate change

Andrea Wong Christine Juch Mike Skomba

Donnetta Elsasser 1 month ago

That's a good visual, Gwen Duralek .

At the moment I can't think of a particular visual I create for the climate project. I think the Emissions Image Sort does a good job of helping students understand the Grand Challenges.

The Grand Challenges infographic is also pretty helpful.
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Will Nash 23 days ago

Love this! What if you flipped it on the kids and had them make their own infographics?
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Donnetta Elsasser 21 days ago in reply to Will Nash

I have had students do that for various topics/units. It works well sometimes but sometimes students just do a poster. That's when I know I didn't do a good enough job teaching how an infographic differs from a poster... or I accidentally over-complicated the lesson!
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