Lab Safety

Posters Lesson/Expectations

A great poster is Readable

Readability is a measure of how easily the ideas flow from one item to the next.

Avoid

• grammatical problems
• complex or passive sentence structure
• misspellings is "hard to read".

A great poster is legible

• Make sure it is easily understood.
• Lettering should be dark and clear
• Font should be big enough to read from 6-10 feet away, a typical distance for reading a poster.

A great poster is well organized

Spatial organization makes the difference between reaching 95% rather than just 5% of your audience. If the reader has to spend time hunting for the next idea or piece of data, time is taken away from thinking about the main idea or purpose of your poster

A great poster is succinct

Studies show that you have only 11 seconds to grab and retain your audience's attention so make the catch phrase prominent and brief. Most of your audience is going to absorb only the catch phrase. Not too much detail is needed. Your purpose for the poster should be in your title or surrounding text and should raise awareness about Lab Safety.

Reading/Mining Graphic Texts For Meaning

Use these bullet points to mine for meaning in each of the art posters. For the first poster read the first bullet point if you find a section of the poster that includes any of those features write it on a sticky and place it on the poster identifying something about that feature, for example shape; the poster includes text boxes and images that are in the same rectangular shapes. Do not block any writing or images when applying stickies. Do not write on the posters or place your sticky on and then write, it will indent the laminated surface.

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Features

• design features (e.g. colour, shape, line, placement, balance, images and focal points)

• printed word features (e.g. font and size of font, bullets, titles, headings, subheadings, italics, labels, specific vocabulary, punctuation, sentence structure, spelling and captions)

• organizational features ( e.g. spacing, legends, borders to define space keys, pronunciation guides, bolded words for emphasis of ideas and labels)

• organizational patterns (e.g. main ideas and connecting ideas, what is the arrangement of the information and does it explain or inform).

• graphic features (e.g. are there connections between the words and the graphics? How?)

• poster features (e.g. should be legible from 6-10 feet away, title should be easy to read and neat)

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Categories

Knowledge

This category looks at the form

What are the text features required for an educational poster?

Thinking

This category is about what you say

Have you developed logical ideas and descriptive writing?

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Communication

This category is the way you say it

Are your sentences complete, fluent, correct spelling, and appropriate vocabulary

Application

This category is the way you connect all the information

Do the graphics and information work together?

Can you take information from other sources and apply it to this task?

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