Colorado State University Deforestation Infographic Design Presentation

Students will create an infographic for an environmental issue of your choice to be presented in class. For topics, remember that this class is Environmental Toxicology! One power point slide will be submitted to Dr. Legare via email (and also upload PDF of the slide to canvas). This is an individual assignment but if you so desire you can work with one other individual and the final grade will reflect that of a bigger, better infographic as two heads were involved in its creation. 100 points.

General Info:

• All infographics are due by Friday Nov 13th at 11:59pm! You must upload it as a PDF to canvas AND you need to email me your powerpoint/PDF as well by that time as well!
• Visual layout and flow is important
• Content of material is important (know your material as you may get questions!)!
• Spelling counts
• Cover: who, what, where, when, why, how
• Use citations (these can be very small in one corner)
• We will present everyone’s infographic to the class for peer evaluations after Thanksgiving Break.

TOPICS (pick only one!) * if you are interested in doing a different topic chat with me!

• Mental Health and diet
• Dieting drugs and suppression of mosquito bites
• Air pollution in National Parks
• Carcinogenic compounds in medicines
• BPA plastic alternatives
• Vaping
• Sunscreen and environment
• Adverse effects on health and personal care products
• Ultraprocessed food and health
• Deforestation
• Suburban Sprawl
• Acid Rain
• Ozone Depletion

About Infographics:

• Infographic is a visual representation of information, data, knowledge.
• In an infographic, a mark, a symbol or visual element typically stands for quantitative information.
• Infographics use text as labels and for short explanations to make the data useful. Think of charts, diagrams, graphs, maps, timelines and modern visualizations that aren’t yet named.

There are examples of grading rubrics (for both the newspaper article as well as the infographic) attached below.