E-Fabrication · Unit 06

Symbols + Readability

Vinyl + Visual Communication · Vinyl cutter

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Today’s challenge

Test icons, words, contrast, scale, and viewing distance.

Grade 3 focusChoose from limited fonts/colors, draw simple symbols, and ask viewers what they understand.

Grade 5 focusDesign for accessibility, compare multiple layouts, and use viewer data to defend revisions.

Successful student example for Symbols + Readability

Success example · inspiration, not a design to copy

Look closely. What makes this successful?

Symbols, words, contrast, and size remain understandable from the intended distance.

What to do

  1. Understand. Read the challenge. Circle the important need, rule, or safety limit.
  2. Plan. Use the thinking spaces below before you begin making.
  3. Make. Build, model, code, practice, or investigate carefully with your team.
  4. Check. Use evidence—not guesses—to decide what worked.
  5. Improve or explain. Make one useful change or share your strongest conclusion.

Engineer’s thinking

1. What did you notice?

2. What rule, need, or problem matters today?

3. Draw or describe one example.

Evidence check

Show what you learned.

Your teacher will look for: Viewer-test results and two readability rules written in the student’s own words.

My evidence

My next step

Exit reflection

Today I learned that because .

Next time I will .

How independently did I work?□ I needed coaching□ I worked with my team□ I can teach this skill