Overview
What is an Infographic? It a visual representation (data represented as charts graphs, and brief commentary) on a specific topic.
You will create an infographic on the topic of Poverty. You can google “Poverty Infographic” to get a general idea of what one looks like. You will not use ideas from those examples. We have a set of criteria to follow below for our Infographic.
The infographic should be able to “tell the story” through visual representations and contain the following visual components:
1. Examine Poverty at the Community level (this can be the County that you currently reside in or your home county, if that differs). Mines is Baltimore What is the Poverty data for your county (data must not be older than 2022). Give total number of people living in Poverty. You can also give race, gender and age (but that is optional).
2. Investigate food insecurity and the availability of food banks in your community (the community can include multiple counties as many food banks service multiple areas). What percentage of people are food insecure in your county? Depict the role of food banks and other local initiatives to address food insecurity of the poor. (Some food banks provide data on their websites, so this may be helpful in your search of information).
3. Investigate poverty and the environment. Depict how low-income communities are affected by environmental hazards, lack of green spaces, or inadequate services (like car charging stations for electric vehicles, etc) Include data and/or maps. This can be discussed briefly as a commentary or visually depicted. Create the Infographic to present your findings: You can use PIKTOCHARTLinks to an external site. to present your findings. There is a free version. You can also use Canva (also free version): CanvaLinks to an external site.