Visual Look at River Valley Civilizations

For your first learning through discovery activity we will be making a infograph over different Early River Valley civilizations, you will also create questions to be answered from your infographic and will finally present your infograph to the class on Thur.

Before we get into how you will gather the information you will need for your infograph and then you you will create your infograph, lets first look at what is an infograph by looking at some infographs.

First the simplest definition ...

A little more detailed description ...

If you are still wondering what an infograph is - it simply takes gathered information, organizes it, and displays it with visuals.

This is what you will be doing - gathering information, organizing it, and then assigning visuals to your information and displaying it.

So what information do you need?
1. The name of your early river valley civilization.
2. The time period and location of your civilization (this has time line and map written all over for visuals, but thats just me)
3. Characteristics that led to the rise of your civilization
           a. Economy (what did they produce, what did they trade, with whom did they trade)
           b. Military (size, type, successfulness)
           c. Number of cities (maybe even city-states, also how large were these cities)
           d. Religion (type of religion, how did they show this religion, how did it impact the civilization)
           e. Art (examples, anything they are known for in particular)

Now that you have gathered the needed information (and maybe even some other facts - this would be a good idea), it's time to organize it. Think of how your group whats to visually show the information you have acquired. Now think, will this visual makes sense to the rest of class? To Mr. Moulden?

Now you are ready to put together your infograph, the good news - there really is no wrong way to do this. But some basic tips:

1. Keep it simple
2. Most import information is where you what people to start - this is usually visually the top or middle of the page.
3. Use different size and colors of fonts to show similarities and differences.
4. Have fun!