Symbols

What symbols do you know and use? Make a list of common ones. Start you search by looking at your closest appliances - your computer, telephone, microphone or TV. What symbols do you see and what do those symbols communicate? Start a record of symbols in your home in your journal. Make drawings of the symbols, paying attention to their shape and color. Next label the symbol as to where you found it and what it means. Which room had the most symbols? Can you find more than 25 different symbols in your home?

Be a symbol sleuth!

Leave your house taking your journal, a drawing tool, and/or a digital camera. Look for new symbols. Many times symbols at the neighborhood scale are larger so as to be visible to both people walking and people in cars. Streets are full of symbols. Record as many street shapes, signs, and patterns (striped lines, painted curbs, etc.) that serve as instructions.

See in symbols!

What symbols are universal? Make a list of common symbols that are recognized around the world using the resource link. Next, research three new symbols using the symbol dictionary. Copy the symbol, the history of the symbol, and the meaning of the symbol in your journal. Now make a symbol of your own. Think succinctly! Communicate with symbols!!!

Seek the secret power of symbols!

Kaomoji are expressions of emotions using characters and grammar punctuations. The expressions show a wide range of creativity and humor in expressing human emotions. The word Kaomoji comes from the two words ‘kao’ or face and 'moji’ is character. Take a look at the language of Kaomojis and create your own characters!

People have used symbols to communicate ideas since they could make marks. Today the symbols we use on our digital media are called emojis or emoticons. Originally created in Japanese, these symbols express emotions, and are known as ‘emoticons’. There are now buildings, weather symbols, transportation choices, animals, flowers, etc.! This is your opportunity to study the emoticons and design some new ones. Take a look at the New York Times article, America Needs its Own Emojis and the Wikipedia report on these emotional symbols. See how creative people are in creating symbols to express people, places, things and emotions! From symbol emoticons to graphic emojis, take your turn at creating three new symbols.

• A printed sign is called a glyph.
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• A symbol can be a sound.
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• Letters in an alphabet are symbols.
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• New symbols can be created.
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• Words are printed or written symbols of meaning.
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