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Rebuild, Renew, Revitalize, Recreate new Orleans
Learners research post-Katrina career opportunities in New Orleans and in their own communities, then design a revitalization plan. In this research and design lesson, students use a variety of sources to find out how Hurricane Katrina...
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The Mind Behind Design
Students explore a design website and journal their findings. In this design and writing lesson, students analyze the design process and discuss benefits to society through design. Students choose a design that they feel is the most...
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The Night Chanter Project
Students sketch a design based on "The Night Chanter." In this art design instructional activity, students listen to the Native American prayer, "The Night Chanter" and illustrate their personal vision of the chant. Students critique the...
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Designing Scavengers
Students write a headline that captures the most important aspects of the People's Design Award. For this design lesson, students are introduced to The People's Design Award and collaborate to create a headline for a newspaper article....
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Every Object Tells a Story
Students read the story behind objects in the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum and create a story about an object in the exhibit. In this design lesson, students explore the "Design for the Other 90%" exhibition and create a...
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Fly, Fly Away
Students use materials from their own environment to design a kite. For this kite design lesson, students research the history of kites and obtain a formal mathematical definition of a kite. Students sketch kite designs after discovering...
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You've Got Chocolate on my Peanut Butter
Students solve design problems. In this art and design lesson plan, students create a picture by analyzing two others, and make a prototype of a building. The small group activities call for creativity and ingenuity as well as the...
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Changing the World: Social Entrepreneurs Part One
Students analyze the purpose of a social entrepreneur. In this entrepreneurship lesson, students create a "help wanted" advertisement and graphic organizer to provide information on how a social entrepreneur seeks long-term change by...
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Design It! American Stamps
Students design a stamp using the skills and techniques of professionals. In this Design It! American Stamps lesson plan, students identify the selection criteria that is used to decide which images go on stamps. After students...
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The Business of Design
Young scholars visit the Design for the Other 90% exhibition. In this design lesson, student learn how to design for the population of the world that is poor or impoverished. In addition, students read New York Times articles and watch...
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Imaginary Spaces: Designing a Play Space
Students apply their enthusiasm for imaginary play to create their own imaginary play space. In this novice architectural design lesson, students arrange and glue pre-cut foam shapes to a cardboard base to set up their play space. In...
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Line and Design
All students are interested in graphic design. This activity taps into this interest to have students learn about graphic elements.
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Room Design
In this math instructional activity, middle schoolers design a room by picking a room from home. They measure it and then create a three dimensional model.
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Design To Color
In this coloring page, students examine a free form design. Students color and decorate the picture any way they wish. There are no directions or words on the page.
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Chinese Pictograms
In this Chinese writing worksheet, students identify what and how to write Chinese pictograms. They explain in what ways each pictogram represents and how the combinations of symbols create a word or idea represented. Then students...
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Magazine Cover Design Contest
Learners design a magazine cover. They are told the size of the page 8.5" by 11." Students are told that the magazine does not have to be real, and it can be about any topic that they want. They make the magazine cover look realistic....
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Shopping Bag Challenge
Students design a shopping bag that will allow the consumer to immediately identify the store and understand the product that is being sold. They create an advertisement for a new shopping bag. Students choose their type of business to...
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Fashion: 20th Century to the Present
Students explore fashion through the 20th Century. They create a poster about their assigned era. Students teach their classmates about the fashion of the assigned period. They describe the fashion trends, current events, popular music...
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Proportion Flattering the Figure
Students identify how to create a flattering figure and demonstrate their knowledge through a portfolio page. They create a professional fashion presentation incorporating the principles and elements of design, explain each in writing,...
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Designing in Microsoft
Students review the basic formatting in Microsoft Word. Individually, they use the program to design a flyer for a baseball game. To end the instructional activity, they print them out, present them to the class and given a grade based...
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SA Restaurant
Students investigate the concept of designing a restaurant with the help of using various technological applications. They use word processing to create paperwork that would be needed to run the business. Students create the logo and...
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Vocational: Fashion terms
Students view a Powerpoint presentation on fashion industry vocabulary and locate examples in magazines that illustrate the terms. On black construction paper, students assemble collages of the magazine pictures representing each of the...
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Elements Video
Students watch a video on the elements of design. During the video, they take notes and complete a worksheet on the material. To end the lesson, they review their answers to the worksheet and view examples of each element of design in a...
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Color - Interior Design
Students review the principle elements of design along with the sequence of colors on the color wheel. In groups, they assign a feeling or mood to each color and share it with the class. To end the lesson, they use the internet to...