Today’s goal: Create an infographic, interactive image, or collage to promote February’s Harvest of the Month, butternut squash.

 Key skills you’ll practice: graphic/visual design, use of digital media creation tools

Harvest of the Month digital media promotion

• You’re going to create images for the school webpage and social media to promote the school lunch program’s Harvest of the month
• Important: only use photos from the sources below and make sure you’re creating something you are proud to have on the school site and in your portfolio!
• Where your stuff will go: school webpage, school/city Facebook, school/city Twitter
• January’s Harvest of the Month is butternut squash. Today school nutritionist Retta Smith is visiting us and we’re going to sample a butternut squash recipe.
• Working independently or in teams of 2, choose 1 medium to work with today:
  • infographic (sign up for free account)
  • interactive image (sign up for free account)
  • collage (no account needed)
• Get images:
  • https://unsplash.com/
  • https://www.pexels.com/
  • Bing.com (do image search, then search for free to share and use)
•  Butternut squash facts to include:
  • Local butternut squash is being served February 9 and February 14.
  • Where our butternut squash is from (name of local farm, company, or region)
  • Info from https://www.massfarmtoschool.org/harvests/butternut-squash/
  • Popular recipes (title and maybe a link to a recipe)
  • Nutritional benefits (make sure to cite your source)
  • Details from Ms. Smith’s presentation

 Checklist for Success

• Make sure you do the following to end up in the “wildly successful”, A-range category.
• Wildly successful (A-range):
  1. Models: this infographic, this interactive image, and this collage.
  2. Completed collage, infographic, or interactive image
  3. Images came from sources listed above
  4. Strong, obvious attempt to create an appealing visual theme
  5. Images chosen carefully to go along with visual theme and to be as visually appealing as possible
  6. Text information included is helpful and descriptive, and includes dates served, nutrition facts, and origin of the local produce.
  7. Text is easy to read
• Moderately successful (B/C-range):
  1. Completed collage, infographic, or interactive image
  2. Images came from sources listed above
  3. Images somewhat appealing; evidence of some attempt made to create visual theme.
  4. Text information included is helpful and descriptive, but doesn’t include everything listed in the wildly successful model.
  5. Text is somewhat hard to read
• Not so successful (C or lower-range):
  1. Incomplete graphic
  2. Little effort put into creating visual theme
  3. Images from sources other than those listed
  4. Minimal text that provides little information
  5. Text is hard to read