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Poster Design For Peace

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students examine the elements and principles of design. They design and create posters to promote world peace.
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Fusing Furniture and Asian Art

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students design furniture. In this visual arts lesson plan, students examine French, Chinese, and Asian art pieces. Students compare the lacquer art and apply the motifs to their lacquer panels and furniture pieces.
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Fusing Furniture And Asian Art

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students see how French artists used imported lacquer panels in their furniture. They explore Asian lacquer panels and create their own Asian-inspired lacquer panel design. They incorporate their classmates' designs into a new furniture...
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ANCIENT ART/ABORIGINAL BARK PAINTING

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders explore Aboriginal art and how it is used in communication and story-telling. They create their own Aboriginal art out of brown paper, incorporating designs and patterns.
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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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Take a Seat: Exploring Chair Design

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Learners analyze chair design for its art. In this art analysis lesson, students analyze the art in the designs of chairs. Learners complete image based discussion. Students complete three related projects.
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Color Scheme Design

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners create a work of art using specific color scheme guidelines studied previously. State standards for the arts are addressed in this six day instructional activity for the high school art class.
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Design Your Life

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students use three different pieces of art and identify the power struggles that are being represented. In groups, they use the Internet to research the distribution of wealth throughout Canada during the Victorian time period. They...
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Elements of Design

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Pupils 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 summarize it.
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Looking at French Decorative Arts: Symbols in Marquetry

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students 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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Remembrance Through Public Art

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Pupils discuss the purpose of public art, in the form of memorials. They research the design and planning of the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington D.C., then plan their own memorial and construct a 3D model.
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Designing an Appalachian Folk Art Museum

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners investigate the concepts related to the Appalachian area and the movement of Folk Art. They conduct research using a variety of resources and use the samples as inspiration for creating their own works of art. They could...
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A Design for a Fireplace: Extreme Home Makeover

For Teachers 7th - Higher Ed
Students examine a relief structure focusing on style, relief, and design. Students discuss and analyze the sculpture Sketch for a Fireplace Overmantel by Francesco Antonio Franzoni. Students brainstorm about the current styles...
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Rock art

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students study rock art they use art materials, colored photographs and rock art examples to: differentiate between symbol, petroglyph, pictograph, and rock art. They interpret rock art to illustrate its importance in the cultural...
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Middle Eastern Geometric Art

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students examine how Islamic artists represented their beliefs in logic and order through the geometric patterns in their art works. They analyze star patterns in Middle Eastern designs, and create geometric patterns using geometric shapes.
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Looking at French Decorative Arts

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students compare the role of a marchand-mercier to that of a modern-day business counterpart and write a persuasive letter. In this French art instructional activity, students discuss the role of the marchand-mercier in French design and...
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Pinwheel Modern Art Styles

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Students explore artistic design by creating pin wheel models in class. In this modern art activity, students examine historic art work of Van Gogh, O'Keeffe and Mondrian before emulating their work on construction paper. Students...
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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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Interior Design - Space Unit

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students review the elements of design with a focus on space. During a lecture, they complete a listening guide and ask any questions they might have. Individually, they are given paper to design the classroom in regards to placement...
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Designing a Robot and Microsoft PowerPoints

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders discover the uses and main characteristics of robots then design a robot that performs a task that people do not want to do. Colored drawings of their robot are created including labels of the parts and explanations of...
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Principle of Design

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students study the principle of design 'Emphasis' through class participation, a PowerPoint presentation, and a portfolio assignment. They add a page discussing emphasis to their professional portfolio and demonstrate knowledge of the...
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Design Details (Fashion Lingo)

For Teachers 9th - 12th
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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Interior Design Final Project

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students are introduced to the requirements for their final interior design project. In groups, they compare and contrast the characteristics of floor plans to the needs of families living in the houses. Individually, they design their...
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Creating an Experimental Design

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students research the damage to the environment by certain plant species. They create an experimental design which they test how these species take over certain habitats. They share their information with the class.

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