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Symmetry
Students make a design with pattern blocks and then pass them on to the rest of the class. They have to make them symmetrical and complete the design.
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Tar Beach Quilt
Students cut and design a pretend beach after reading Faith Ringold's "Tar Beach" book.
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Button, Button, Who Has the Button?
Students examine and discuss design and image. They design and create a computer-made design that be made into buttons and sold to the school and community.
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Strawblowing Watercolor Design
Students create a water color design using straw blowing and fill in the design with brushes.
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Geo Jammin' By DeSign - Day 3, Lesson 16: The ABC of Symmetry
Students follow directions in the ABC of Symmetry to make a butterfly which shows a line of symmetry.
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SIMPLE FABARIC FOLDING FOR CHRISTMAS
Pupils explore easy techniques for creating folded shapes with Christmas-colored fabrics to make quilts, stockings, table runners, placemats, pillows, or count-down calendars
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Costume Building with Recyclable Items
Students create costumes that match a description of a character using only recyclable objects.
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Looking at French Decorative Arts: Symbols in Marquetry
Young scholars study a French cabinet, then research and discuss its symbols. They create their own marquetry design based on an animal symbol from another country.
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Design a Theme Park
Students design a theme park based on people and events of the Revolutionary War.
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Principles of Design Quiz
High schoolers review principes of design in groups and then take the quiz individually.
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Fashion Terms
Students define fashion terminology and play Bingo with fashion terms. They find pictures that portray fashion terms, mat them and use them to create portfolios.
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Fashion Terms
Students listen to a lecture on fashion terms and define these words. They identify examples of terms in fashion magazines and take a quiz.
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Fashion History
Students view a PowerPoint presentation on fashion history while taking notes. They choose a fashion era to research and, in groups, prepare a presentation.
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Fashion Capitols
Young scholars divide into groups to research one of the five major fashion capitols of the world. They share their research with other groups in order to answer worksheet questions.
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Design Details (Fashion Lingo)
Students identify and define fashion details that are used in garment design. They play Bingo with fashion detail terminology. They create a fashion sketch using fashion details and write an essay.
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Clue In On Color
High schoolers consider the effects of color on moods and feelings. They participate in a variety of demonstrations to explore the role of illusion and suggestion in human perception. They consider which color best represents their...
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Interior Design
Students complete a design for their bedrooms. They design a floor plan for their bedrooms including convenient traffic zones and good use of space. They include fabric swatches or examples of wallpaper along with notes on theme and...
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Elements of Design
High schoolers define basic design vocabulary. They examine fabrics and sort into similar piles, design a picture of a beautiful room and label each art element in the design. They read an article from an interior design magazine and...
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Putting It All Together
Students experience the design of different structures. create, design, and evaluate different structures. They use Lego blocks to create several different designs. They evaluate the various steps involved in creating their structures.
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The School Travel Agency
Pupils, in groups, produce a travel brochure outlining the uniqueness of a given state or province. They consider what makes an effective travel brochure, research their state and design, edit and present their brochure to the class.
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Fun with Balloons
Fifth graders design their own hot air balloon. In this science lesson, 5th graders investigate how factors like weight and sizes affect a balloon's lifting power. They also write math problems based on facts written in the book "The...
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Towers
Sixth graders study the different methods to build a shake table. In this earthquake lesson students build their own shake table and experiment with their own structure design.
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Paper Airplane Scientific Method
Students explain the steps of the scientific method. In this paper airplane lesson plan students design and test their own paper airplane.