Practice creating an infographic as an option for the Visual Artifact component of the CSP Performance Task: Explore

Have students practice creating an infographic as an option for the Visual Artifact component of the CSP Performance Task: Explore.(Tip originally posted on CS Teaching Tips.)

• It’s important that your students get a chance to practice all the skills necessary for successfully completing Performance Tasks on the AP Computer Science Principles (CSP) exam.
  • As such, having students develop an infographic using an online dataset and Excel as practice gives them experience creating visual artifacts.
• Activity:
  • First, students find a dataset.
  • Next, students must create charts in Excel that communicate important information from the dataset.
    • Provide clear examples of successful infographics and charts so that students understand what is expected of them.
      • The visual artifact must be a visualization, graphic, or movie, so an infographic is only one option of many students can choose from.
  • Then, have students embed these visuals into a PowerPoint file.
  • Lastly, have students work on arranging this data in a meaningful and visually compelling way.

Tip orginally posted on CS Teaching Tips from interview with Nigamanth Sridhar