Before we begin, check out today’s featured site, a great visualization of immigration to the US over 200 years

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

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
• Reminders: 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
• June’s Harvest of the Month is strawberries. Today school nutritionist Retta Smith is visiting us and we’re making strawberry/watermelon smoothies.
• Working individually 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)
• Strawberry facts to potentially include:
  • Local strawberries can be found at the Medford Farmers Market, which begins today and is every Thursday from 3-7 pm behind City Hall.
  • A strawberry salad is being served in our schools on June 9 and strawberry smoothies will be served on June 14
  • Where our strawberries are from (name of local farm or company)
  • Info from the Harvest of the Month website
  • Popular recipes (title and maybe a link to a recipe)
  • Nutritional benefits (make sure to cite your source)
  • Details from Ms. Smith’s presentation