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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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Tour + Workshop = DESIGN: Form Follows Function

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars design a chair with function in mind. In this design lesson, students design a chair out of newspaper that is strong enough to hold a "peanut ball". Young scholars discuss how the form follows the function. This lesson...
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Create, Design, and Invent with Plastic

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students explore creative ways to reuse materials. In this ecology/art lesson, students create artwork using trash. Students view examples of folk art from around the world that used waste products as a main component.
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Ripped Paper Art - Snowmen, Mountains and Evergreens

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students discover depth in photographs or paintings by creating a picture from scrap paper.  In this art analysis lesson, students practice creating depth by placing different elements higher or lower on a picture.  Students...
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Art Class, Variation 2

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Given a set of six paint mix ratios, artistic mathematicians produce an equation that relates the number of parts for blue paint to parts for yellow paint resulting new shades of green. 
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Culture Connect: Experience the Culture of the World

For Teachers 5th - 9th Standards
A rich series of activities introduces learners to the concept of culture by closely examining the behaviors, practices, and art of three distinct peoples: the Highland Maya of Guatemala, the Hmong of China and Southeast...
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Become a Journalist

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Explore the newspaper as a unique entity with a detailed and extended unit. The unit requires learners to consider the newspaper's role in democracy, think about ethics, practice writing and interviewing, and examine advertising and news...
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Visual Arts Careers

For Teachers 7th - 12th
What kind of careers are there in the art field? Create an arts occupation book with your class while investigating several art careers. Students include samples in their book of the types of art each career produces.    
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Frieze Design in Indigenous Art

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students describe Frieze designs using the work of indigenous people.  In this math instructional activity, students create 7 frieze designs using different patterns.  They create one row of repeated art and repeat...
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Why Do Art?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers examine the purposes of art and view examples of art created by artists, designers, and craftspeople. They write a report describing the various purposes for creating works of art.
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Art of Japan - Textiles - Kimonos

For Teachers K - 5th
Young scholars examine and discuss the role of the Kimono in Japanese culture. They create Kimono Paper Weavings, Kimono Scratch Art, and Kimono Clay Sculptures.
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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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Keeping Us in Stitches Activity: Crazy-Quilt Collage Design

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students create collages using the irregular-shaped and sized pieces, decorative stitching, and applied or painted motifs that reflect the Crazy-Quilt style, and explain how and why their design fits into that style.
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Looking at French Decorative Arts: Symbols in Marquetry

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students study symbols on a French cabinet. In this architectural design lesson, students examine the symbolism of the door panel on the "Cabinet on Stand." Students create their own unique design based on a symbol from another country.
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World Trade Center Design Proposals

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students 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.  Students choose and evaluate three...
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Money and Business (Art)

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders investigate world currency by creating their own coin art.  In this government lesson, 3rd graders examine the characteristics of different coins and create their own design for a new one.  Students discuss and...
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Designing Future Houses

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students discuss the changes we face and what kind of future house designs students can imagine. They create a floor plan, make an architectural drawing, and write a short description about their future house.
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Design Your Dream Room

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Learners 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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3-D Design - Painting

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers explain elements of relief sculpture. They create a sculpture from foam. They identify characteristics of the art of Clayton Pond and Pop Art. They develop skills in working with color.
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Technology as a Design Tool for self-portraits

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students create self-portraits using the technology of digital cameras mixed with other media. Adobe Photoshop is a requirement for this specific three week project. State standards for the arts are addressed.
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Our Designs For The World Trade Center Site

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Students design specific structures appropriate for the World Trade Center site.  For this architecture design lesson, students use the Internet to research the original structures at the World Trade Center site and use painting or...
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The Who, What, and Y of Design

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students discover how large national chain stores create product lines that appeal to Generation-Y consumers. After learning in-depth about Target's new Dorm Room line, students create their own Generation-Y inspired product line.
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Designing a 2-liter Pop Bottle Piece to be Used for Water Rockets

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers design and create water rockets using recycled materials. In this technology lesson, students measure and sketch their project design before drawing them using SolidWorks. They construct the bottle as accurately as possible.
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Rhytym in Interior Design

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers demonstrate the use of rhythm in interior design. They create a sample page showing five different elements of rhythm as it is used in visual art. These elements include: repetition, gradation, transition, opposition, and...

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