How to make a spaghetti dinner

 

To make a visual of how to make a spaghetti dinner, I used some of the ideas that we learned in class. I tried to make the visual as simple as possible because in class my groups how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich had too much information and it became complicated. It was difficult to get some messages across without using words or numbers, like what temperature to boil the pasta at. For that step I tried to indicate that the stove needed to be on high by the size of the shapes on the dial and the color of the burner. It was also difficult to show the amount of time without using numbers, but the shape of a clock is pretty universal and so I shaded in a quarter of the clock to show 15 minutes. After finishing my visual I thought it would be beneficial to add arrows to indicate the order of steps. I also included arrow that pointed down because in class we talked about how in different languages there is a different order of reading and I wanted this visual to be understood by most people regardless of language. After doing this activity I realized how much only visuals could explain and that their is not always a need for words, and sometimes visuals are easier to understand. I think this is helpful before creating other visuals because it could be used as a first step and then words could be added after to aid to the directions but not over complicate things.