Figure and Ground

User:

1st grade students some with higher level reading skills and some with no reading skills. 

Justification:

The image is made for students to see a visual of a rock type to then be able to classify and identify a given rocks classification. While creating the image I made sure to keep in mind the figure and grounding described in Chapter 5. I wanted to emphasize what to look for in each of the main 3 rock types students would need to identify. 

Sedimentary rocks are layered in fairly equal layers. With my arrows, I made an equal sign and put the words equal and layer mixed in with the arrows to show two types of equal, 2 lines of text with 2 lines of arrows.

Metamorphic rocks are created with heat and pressure. Depending on the pressure of an area the layers in the rock form different patterns. Instead of showing a large rock and zooming in to one specific area, I just showed the zoomed in area depicting the waves in the rock formation. 

Igneous rocks are created for liquid lava that has cooled and hardened. Being that my students don't have a well developed vocabulary, cooled was not used in the graphic as not to confuse the meaning awesome with something that is no longer hot. 

I kept the words very concise so the students would be able to focus on rock type, then picture, then what to look for. The same color was used in the arrows to better contrast and to draw their attention to the picture more for those students unable to read.