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New York State Education Department

TASC Transition Curriculum: Workshop 2

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Flipped classrooms and online tools killed the chalkboard! An awesome, hands-on technology workshop asks teachers across all content areas. to examine model lessons, become familiar with research, and explore tech tools they can...
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Web Style Guide: Basic Design Principles

For Students 9th - 10th
An online manual for Basic Design Principles for Creating Web Sites. Includes links to Philosophy, Interface Design, Site Design, Page Design, Web Graphics, and Web Multimedia and Animation chapters, with Appendices.
Article
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Smashing Magazine: Product Design Principles: How Does Your Product Stack Up?

For Students 9th - 10th
The purpose of this article is to answer the question, "What do the greatest product designers consider to be the most important product design principles, and how can we apply them to our products?" In this article, you will learn six...
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Branksome Hall Asia: Design and Inquiry: Sustainable Design

For Students 9th - 10th
Sustainable design is a philosophy of developing products in line with social, economic, and ecological sustainability principles. In design, it is important to understand the distinction between Green Design and Sustainable Design....
Online Course
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Open Course Ware: Music and Theater Arts: Principles of Design

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Course homepage for "The Principles of Design." In this course, students will learn about the principles of theater design, emphasizing script analysis. Links lead to the course syllabus, calendar, readings, assignments, study materials,...
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Natomas High School: Design Principles: Proximity

For Students 9th - 10th
A review of the principle of proximity as it applies to visual communication. Ends with a poster project lesson that underscores proximity and related concepts.
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Other

Yale Style Manual: Graphic Design 100

For Students 9th - 10th
Basic information about graphic design in an easy to navigate manual form.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: "Advertising Design Principles Project"

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will analyze a magazine advertisement and answer basic desktop publishing questions about this particular advertisement. Students will present their advertisement and analysis to the class. Before designing projects of their own...
Website
Other

Buck Institute for Education: Designing Your Project

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Step through each of the five design principles presented here to learn how to design effective, engaging projects, and how to manage the process successfully. There are tools for creation, management, and assessment of projects...
Website
Goshen College

Some Ideas About Composition and Design

For Students 9th - 10th
Starts with explaining visual elements, goes through design principles, balance, visual effects, and more. Teaching tips included too.
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ArtLex

Art Lex: Graphic Design Course

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This site from Artlex is a lesson plan for a secondary level graphic design class designed by Michael Delahunt. There are many projects including: Designing a poster; Altering a photo; Photoshop Tricks; studying Logos; Designing logos;...
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Other

Open University: Design

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive unit looks at the process of design. By the end of the lesson you will be able to identify innovation in a wide variety of designed objects and evaluate the impact of this innovation.
Interactive
Goodwill

Gcf Global: Beginning Graphic Design

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how color, layout, images, composition, typography, branding, and more relate to graphic design.
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Department of Defense

Do Dea: Web Design: Module 5: Design Elements

For Students 9th - 10th
In Module 5 of this course on web design, students learn about the design elements of web page design. They learn about page layout, color schemes, typography, and site navigation.
Website
Other

Jessett: Graphic Design

For Students 9th - 10th
A guide to graphic design that includes information on color layout, design layout, different graphic design software, and tutorials using different types of software.
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Other

Design Share: 12 Design Principles Based on Brain Based Learning Reserach.

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This article, presented in a workshop, provides 12 design principles based on brain-based research.
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Cornell University

Cornell University: Art, Design, and Visual Thinking

For Students 9th - 10th
Use the left-hand toolbar of this site to investigate an online textbook for the language of design. It provides visual examples and explanations of line, form, color, color psychology, texture, balance, proportion and many more...
Graphic
NC State University

Nc State University: The Principles of Universal Design [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This poster explains the seven principles of universal design. Each principle is accompanied by a photograph showing how it could be applied in real-life product design.
Article
Other

Wizhat: How to Design a Great Web Site

For Students 9th - 10th
Information on Web designing. Includes learning HTML, write what you're good at, color and design are important, and using tables. Includes example pages of techniques.
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Other

Career Foundry: The Key Principles and Steps of the Design Thinking Process

For Students 9th - 10th
This guide explains the Design Thinking process - including where it comes from, why it's so valuable, what it's used for, the five stages of the Design Thinking process, and how to learn more about it.
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iCivics

I Civics: Constitutional Principles

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The Founding Fathers created a government based on a set of fundamental principles carefully designed to guarantee liberty. This lesson lets students look at the Constitution from the perspective of its foundational principles and make...
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Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art: Islamic Art, Geometric Design: Learning Activities

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Examine the principles of geometric design that are the basis for the beautiful and intricate patterns in the art of the Islamic world.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Skyscrapers: Engineering Up!

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Skyscrapers are one of the most glorified products of Civil Engineering and contain an interesting history of progress and development. In this lesson, the students will learn about the history of the world's tallest free standing...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Principles of Experiment Design

For Students 9th - 10th
Practice questions on principles of experimental design.

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