Piktochart.com lets you create infographics free using a limited number of templates that can then be edited in ways that seem only limited by your imagination.
Piktochart – My favourite tool for creating free infographics
Inclusive, 21st Century teaching is all about using technology to enhance and demonstrate understanding. Add infographics to your list of ways your students can show their understanding of a topic in an engaging way.
Click here for a Year 4 lesson plan incorporating Digital Technology and English Infographic,Teacher Resource Package
This article gives you a few ideas about how you can create an authentic classroom task that can be as complex as the year level dictates. Here they use the application Share and aim their lesson around years 6-8, but there are many free infographic creators available to choose from and task requirements can be adjusted to suit lower year levels.
Created for CSER Digital Technologies MOOC
A simple infographic like this can be created in one lesson with adequate student planning and prior knowledge of the chosen program.
Years 3 – 4
Design Technologies
- Generate, develop, and communicate design ideas and decisions using appropriate technical terms and graphical representation techniques (ACTDEP015)
Digital Technologies
- Collect, access and present different types of data using simple software to create information and solve problems (ACTDIP009)
Years 5 – 6
Design Technologies
- Generate, develop, communicate and document design ideas and processes for audiences using appropriate technical terms and graphical representation techniques (ACTDEP025)
Digital Technologies
- Acquire, store and validate different types of data and use a range of commonly available software to interpret and visualise data in context to create information (ACTDIP016)
Australian Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority [ACARA] (2014). Design and Technologies: Foundation to Year 10 curriculum. Retrieved from http://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/technologies/design-and-technologies/Curriculum/F-10
Australian Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority [ACARA] (2014). Digital Technologies: Foundation to Year 10 curriculum. Retrieved from http://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/technologies/digital-technologies/Curriculum/F-10
H.O.T. Topics for the Australian Curriculum 