How To Make Hot Cocoa
Image by Matt Dingo with help from Jakub Dingo
I choose to make this visual based instruction to make hot cocoa for a second grader. This was a bit of a challenge as I do not want my son, who is in first grade, to use the stove. To alleviate my and many parents' concern about using a stove, I developed instructions on how to do it in the microwave with the 'beverage' button which makes a perfectly hot cup of liquid without boiling it. I added a note to this step which you might not be able to read in this post: "Ask an adult for help in setting the time if your microwave does not have a beverage button." I also added a graphic of what that button looks on our microwave.
My son read the instructions out loud to test if he could understand them. Then i photographed him performing each step after he read each instruction again.
When I saved the image as a .jpg, my computer added a stroke on the top and left of the page and a dashed box around my second picture. This was not visible on the original.
Matt, your hot cocoa directions were easy to follow, visually consistent, and appropriate to the audience. The blue type on the "You will need" photo was a little hard to read. White may have worked better because the photo has an overall dark tone to it. I'm not sure why there is a dotted line around step 1 - Put 1 cup milk in the microwave. Finally, you may want to consider numbering your steps, just to make sure there is no question as to the order.
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