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Design Team Challenge: A Pair Activity to Practice Prepositions of Place

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
Test your pupils' skills with indoor decorating while finding out how well they understand prepositions of place. After practicing living room vocabulary, pairs furnish a room by drawing in items. They then present their room to the...
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Reading about Recent Exhibits in the Art and Design Section

For Students 9th - 12th
A large part of analyzing or understanding art is knowing how to read about it. The New York Times has put together these who, what, where, when, and how questions to aid learners in comprehending informational pieces related to art and...
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Inventions in Everyday Life

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students identify and solve problems as they modify the design of an everyday household item. They gather and analyze information and work in collaborative teams to create a design plan for a new product.
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Mathematical Explorations of the People’s Design Award

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students conduct surveys using nominees from the People’s Design Award, analyze data, and present the results using a pictorial representation. In this lesson, students will then design their own contest and mathematically determine a...
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Designing Connections: Bringing Communities Together

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars design a community and write a persuasive essay selling their design. For this community relations lesson, students learn about design concepts and use problem solving skills to design structures and events that will bring...
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Lesson Plan 18: Art Project! Design Your Own Book Cover

For Teachers 3rd - 9th
Finished your novel? What’s next? Designing the book cover, of course. But how to begin? After examining the covers of published books and noting the common elements of these jackets, young novelists design a front and back cover for...
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Dream Room Design

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
Junior designers brainstorm the elements that a bedroom might have, such as a bed, television, and dresser. They identify which items are needs and which are desires. They practice measurement skills in the classroom by determining its...
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Fundamental Counting Principle

For Students 7th - 8th
For this Fundamental Counting Principle worksheet, students solve and complete 6 different problems that include determining the number of license plates created. First, they multiply the number of ways that each event can occur...
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Designing Carousels

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students design a carousel for an amusement park. In collaborative groups they conduct research, develop a presentation, write a descriptive paragraph, evaluate design features, and draw an artistic rendering of their carousel.
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Design Diaries

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students consider their interest in interior design and comment on popular trends. They explore reactions to prolific design ideas that become mundane by reading and discussing the article "Flash in the Can: Designs Soon Forgotten." They...
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Designing Scavengers

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners write a headline that captures the most important aspects of the People's Design Award. In 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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Pattern Block Design

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this using pattern blocks to create a design worksheet, students read and apply criteria to create a design with pattern blocks, trace it, and draw lines of symmetry. Students complete four pattern block activities.
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World Trade Center Design Proposals

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young scholars explore architectural design.  In this critical thinking and architecture lesson, students view a number of websites providing proposals for design plans of a new World Trade Center.  Young scholars choose and evaluate...
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Design Your Dream Room

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Young scholars determine length, width, perimeter, and surface area, and work with two-dimensional representations of three-dimension objects to design and write descriptions of their dream bedrooms.
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4-H Line & Design Activity Page

For Students 7th - 10th
What a great activity for students. This 4-H activity sheet has students organize their bedroom, and make clothing, focusing on line and design.
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4-H Line and Design: Intermediate Activity Page

For Students 4th - 8th
In this 4-H line and design worksheet, students will complete a variety of design related activities. Students will use colored pencils to draw in the missing pieces of artistic photographs. Next, they will find and circle 6 art words in...
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Designing a Study

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Students explore features to consider when designing a scientific study. In this science research lesson, students examine different methods of data collection and consider which method would be appropriate for determining how many types...
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Discovering Details: Shoebox Designs

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students investigate architectural art by creating an interior design for a box.  In this art design instructional activity, students analyze modern artifacts such as doorknobs, brackets and mailboxes by using a Venn diagram to identify...
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Area by Design

For Students 4th
In this grid worksheet, 4th graders make a three-color design on a grid. Students use the color blue twice as much as red and the color green three times more often than blue. Students fill in three blanks with the area covered by each...
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Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary

Designing Benjamin Franklin: In Search of a Better World

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
How do you convey someone’s creativity? Individuals answer the question as they design exhibitions to showcase the intellect and genius of Benjamin Franklin. After conducting research, classmates work in groups to try to capture and...
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Line and Design

For Students 11th - Higher Ed
All students are interested in graphic design. This activity taps into this interest to have students learn about graphic elements.
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Improving Web Page Design Elements

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners identify areas of web page design that must be checked before posting a web site to the Internet. They list and demonstrate two or more design elements that can improve the look and functionality of a web site.
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Design a Book Cover

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students use the programs Pics4Learning and ImageBlender 3 to apply their knowledge of characters, plot, setting, symbolism, and conflict to design and create a book cover. Designed as a culminating literature activity.
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Magazine Cover Design Contest

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students 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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