Scientific Diagram Explaination

Growing a vegetable garden Audience Purpose Visuals Symbols Labels Text 1 Gardening in the Living Room - Page 3 How do plants grow Year 5-Year 8 and up because it looks a bit higher level then juniors but not difficult enough to be for adults or teens. The purpose is to help people understand the whole process of plants growing. Using factual language. There are images so we can have a full idea of how it works and there are also close ups to show the closer things. Arrows showing what different parts of the text are explaining. There are words near the arrows to show what goes where. And also a big text box explaining it in a lot more detail. Text 2 Planting an apple tree Year 6 to Year 8 because it has a few hard words but still a bit easy for older kids To help people understand how a tree grows. Giant tree and roots The arrows pointing to the different parts of the tree Short texts that explain each piece Text 3 Tui planting calendar Year 7 to year 10 because there is quite a lot going on and it's quite a hard to red chart To show people when it is best to plant certain animals. And also how long it takes Like plan images showing how good out of three. A big chart/graph The plant images on the graph to show the best out of 3 Text is on the side with a few steps on how to plant Text 3 Own choice

This Synthesis is about all the different elements in a scientific graph, such as audience, visuals, etc. 

First you have to know what a scientific diagram is, its basically a visual representation

Audience- The audience can be decided by what words people are using in their texts. Words like flower, bug and dirt would be words used in level 1 to 3. But in a year level for 7 to 8s then words like photosynthesis and jargon and nutrition would be used. You can also tell in the pictures. If there are a bunch of little cartoon images everywhere. Then it is highly likely that it is for younger kids. But a more detailed, toned down image for older kids and adults. Like in one of the texts above there is quite a few scientific words but not too hard so that it is adult level. It has a picture of a tree and the roots with simple arrows pointing to different elements, so its around the age of 9 to 14.

Purpose- When you are trying to find out what the purpose in a diagram is, you have to look at the factual information that it gives, the title and also subheadings, once you have a pretty good idea of what the main idea of the text is, then you have the purpose. Like if you look at the first text above, You can clearly see that it is to describe photosynthesis and how a plant grows, you can figure this out from the image and the main texts. 

Visuals - Visuals are not the key element in a scientific diagram, but they do help pull the whole thing together, If you were making a diagram about trees and tree roots you would probably have an image of a tree and roots so that you can clearly see what happens with the roots and etc. 

You can also have images that don’t have any value to the diagram, like a little fish for an ocean diagram. And it makes the diagram pop!

A good example of this is in the second diagram above here, about planting trees, it has a tree held up by posts. Fitting the text. Oh yes, that's another thing, visual images must fit the text so it's not random and it all works together.

Symbols- Symbols are relatively important to a diagram, symbols are things like arrows and dashes, mostly the arrows are pointing to different points on an image and explaining bits about them, like pointing to an apple on an apple tree and talking about apples and worms and things about apples, but you wouldn't point to an apple and talk about pears. Symbols can also be the squiggly line that you draw to mark a bees path across the sky. Stuff like that.

Labels- Labels means text, the words that explain things in a diagram, normally using scientifically correct words and sentences, very factual and informative, just like in the last text above, which is a graph of when it is best to plant depending on the month, they explain why its best and they also use little plant pictures to show how good it is out of three.