chart (please see context)

Spanish translation: gráfico / infografía

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English term or phrase:	chart (please see context)
Spanish translation:	gráfico / infografía
Entered by:	Carolingua

14:29 Apr 22, 2005

English to Spanish translations [Non-PRO]
Social Sciences - Education / Pedagogy / history

English term or phrase: chart (please see context)

High school students are being asked to do a project for a history class. This is the task they have to do:

"You have been asked by a publishing company to create a *chart* for a history book that will be read by high school students. The subject of the chart is colonial life in the. Your chart will include written information and visuals under the headings of Family Life, Immigrants, Africans, and Cultural Movements. Under each heading, you will include information on the economic, cultural, and social factors that contributed to life in colonial America. You will also include visual elements to make your chart more appealing. Visuals may include drawings or graphs. You will present your chart on poster board."

Also, they have been told that the purpose of this project is for them to "gain experience in organizing information in *chart form* and to summarize the issues affecting colonial life in the 1700s".

I have been torn about how to translate "chart". I have considered "diagrama", "ilustración", "gráfica", or "cartelera". I like "cartelera" except that is the translation for "bulletin board" and what they are asked to, although it ends up being in the format of a bulletin board, is pedagogically intended to help them organize/display factual information in an abstract/visual format in which the elements are interrelated in a logical way...not teach them how to make a bulletin board where everything is just pasted together...do you see my dilemma?

Please tell me what you think fits this context best!

Carolingua KudoZ activity Questions: 473 (none open) (11 closed without grading) Answers: 1135 United States
Local time: 21:31

gráfico / infografía

Explanation:
A mí me gusta el término "infografía", como integración de elementos verbales y visuales para comunicar o instruir. La única pega que le veo es que tal vez esté demasiado asociado al mundo de la prensa. La misma idea se puede expresar con "gráfico" (aquí en Espana se suele oir "gráfico" y no "gráfica").

Selected response from:

Deschant
Local time: 05:31

Grading comment

Me gusto mucho la opción de "gráfico" en este contexto. ¡Gracias!
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

4 +6

gráfico / infografía

Deschant

4 +1

cuadro (not as in "framed picture", of course)

Gustavo Caldas

cartel

Katty Ossa

gráfico / diagrama cronológico

Xenia Wong

Answers

3 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +6

gráfico / infografía

Deschant
Local time: 05:31
Native speaker of:

Spanish,

Galician
PRO pts in category: 35

Grading comment

Me gusto mucho la opción de "gráfico" en este contexto. ¡Gracias!

10 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

cuadro (not as in "framed picture", of course)

Explanation:
me imagino que depende del país de procedencia de cada traductor, pero a mí me suena bien...

Gustavo Caldas
Native speaker of:

Spanish,

English
PRO pts in category: 6

45 mins confidence:

gráfico / diagrama cronológico

Explanation:
Para mostrar eventos pasados de acuerdo a fechas que se dieron.

Xenia Wong
Local time: 23:31
Native speaker of:

Spanish,

English
PRO pts in category: 173

2 hrs confidence:

cartel

Explanation:
asi es como lo llamabamos en mi colegio...............
suerte

Katty Ossa
Ecuador
Local time: 23:31
Native speaker of:

Spanish

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