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Graphic Design Lesson 5 — Pictographs
Run the current student lesson with its existing evidence, resources, and submission route.
Daily Learning Contract
Topic: Pictograph simplification
Objective: Students will analyze which details are essential and apply shape simplification so an idea remains recognizable at small size.
- §126.19(c)(12)(H) — select and use productivity tools found in spread sheet, word processing, and publication applications to create digital artifacts, including reports, graphs, and charts, with increasing complexity.
Demonstration of learning: Completed pictograph plus a small-size check and a brief explanation of one detail kept, removed, or revised.
Teach with slides
Graphic Design Lesson 4 — Pictographs, live-teach revision · 19 editable slides with teacher notes, built from the original Verizon Gestalt slides with manipulable examples. Use the deck to teach the lesson, then leave the final slide projected during work time. It shows the task, an example, what done looks like, and how to submit.
Download PowerPoint Make a Google Slides copy
Sign in with your Irving ISD Google account to make a copy. The master stays unchanged. Video links open in a browser.
Both formats are in the graphic-design Google Drive folder. You can also open the PowerPoint in Drive.
Use what is already in Canvas
Student-facing task: Lesson 4: Pictographs - Communicating through Shapes. Keep the current student page, requirements, points, and rubric as the source of truth.
- Canva
- pictograph teacher deck
- current assignment and exemplars
Before students begin
- Open the student task in Student View and test the exact sign-in, link, file, or submission path students will use.
- Prepare only the listed existing materials; do not require a personal account or a new unlisted product.
- Keep the current student page available as the accessible and absence route.
Lesson flow
- 1. Launch: Put the purpose in front of students: Students will reduce an idea to a recognizable shape-based image.
- 2. Model: Use one current example, tool, or teacher resource before students begin symbolic communication.
- 3. Guide: Complete the first decision or step together; conference before students commit to a direction.
- 4. Build: Students complete the existing Canvas task. Do not add a second product or change the current rubric.
- 5. Check + next step: Verify this evidence before students leave: Completed pictograph artifact/submission.
Scaffolds and teacher decisions
Keep the student lesson's bilingual tabs, word bank, models, and current support route in view while students work. Reduce the number of examples or provide a partially completed planning frame before reducing the evidence. If a student needs an alternate format, preserve the same named evidence and use the current rubric or teacher judgment rather than adding a hidden requirement.
Close the loop
Use the current Canvas submission for grading. Record the specific misconception, access issue, or revision need you observed; use it to choose the next lesson's launch rather than creating a duplicate exit assignment.