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Design - Lettering

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students, using the concepts of radial design and balance, create a project that focuses on craftsmanship, lettering, promoting a positive self-image, and design elements.
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Spot the Leaf: Identifying Plants in Works of Art

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Pupils explore the leaf as a design motif in art. They conduct Internet research on leaf and tree symbolism, view and discuss artwork, and create an original work of art featuring a leaf or leaf motif.
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Art in Engineering - Moving Art

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Young scholars study how forces are applied in the creation of art. They design mobiles and pop-up books while identifying which forces of nature act upon them. They look at air currents, gravity, and hand movement.
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WebQuest 1: Design and Build a Music Technology Lab for Our School

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students complete a WebQuest related to music. They work together to develop a design for a music technology lab. They build the lab for all students to enjoy.
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Exploring Rembrandt's Chiaroscuro Technique Through Mosaic Design

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students compare mosaic design and pointillism. They discover the meaning of chiaroscuro by creating paper mosaic designs in Rembrandt style.
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Looking At French Decorative Arts: Symbols in Marquetry

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students create a design based on an animal symbol from another country. In this design lesson plan, students study a French cabinet and research and discuss its symbols. Students will then create their own marquetry design based on an...
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Artful Boomerangs

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students create and decorate a boomerang. In this boomerang lesson, students research the history of the boomerang and the three different types. They create their own boomerang and decorate it with a collage of pictures. 
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Light-Capturing Cut Paper Designs

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students create an alternating and repetitive design using at least two original designs. The cut paper design be exposed to a direct source of light (spotlight) in order to form an overall pattern with structural and tonal counterchanges.
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3-D Logo Design - Cardboard Sculpture

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students define, design, and create a 3-D logo using cardboard.
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Fabric Design

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Learners create their own fabric designs on the computer.
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Design a New Dollar Coin

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students create a design for a new coin after researching people who have impacted history. Students must write a persuasive essay about why this person should be memorialized on the dollar coin and present their person to the class.
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Interior Design: Form Vs. Shape

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students discover the difference between form and shape as it pertains to interior design. After identifying objects as either shapes or forms, they design their own shapes and give them form. Activities include creating shapes and...
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Looking At French Decorative Arts: A Tapestry Fit For A King

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners create a tapestry based on the Chariot of Triumph tapestry. In this visual arts lesson, students examine images of the original tapestry, determine the meaning of symmetry, and discuss symbolism in this art form. They draw an...
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Visual Arts Lesson: Writing desk

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders examine a writing desk. They each make decorative drawers to scale for assembly into a class desk. They use repetitive motifs in their designs.
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Designing a CD Cover

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders design a CD cover and compare and contrast traditional and drawing methods with the use of AppleWorks and Photoshop software. They create a professional design layout using AppleWorks, and present their design in the form...
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Industrial Strength Design

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students design, invent, and build a model of something new, useful, or decorative to solve a problem using any combination of materials provided. They also create logos, packaging, etc. related to product sales.
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Tissue Paper Designs

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders explore the colors in the color wheel and complete a tissue art activity that includes a minimum of three different colors from the color wheel and two colors that are opposite each other on the color wheel. They discuss...
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Room Design Planning/From Paper to Virtual Reality and Back Again

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners participate in activities in which they explore how the space and objects around them can be altered. Using various types of software, they design and create a three-dimensional building and share it with the class. They also...
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Product Design and Production in the Global Economy

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders explore the design, manufacture and consumption of personal audio devices and cellular products. They examine the related issues, choices, and consequences in the global economy for such purchases. They research...
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Designer Dinosaurs - Paper Maché

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders explore 3-D materials by making a macquette that could be used for a playgroup sculpture. The students design and execute papier-mâché dinosaurs. They develop painting skills and connect art to science.
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Junk to You, Art to Me

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students are introduced to assemblages and view a variety of examples. They critique selected artworks and discuss the benefits to the community by creating art out of junk. They create an assemblage where they choose objects that...
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Design a Book Cover

For Teachers 7th - 12th Standards
Class members take on the role of graphic designer and craft a cover for a book they are reading. Individuals formulate a proposal outlining the images they will use to not only grab the interest of readers, but hint at the mood and...
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Art Attraction: Researching the Great Masters and their Works

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Young scholars fill out worksheets where they analyze and provide information about different artists, visual art, art techniques, design, and more. For this art lesson plan, students complete 8 worksheets.
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Design a Book Jacket

For Teachers K - 5th
Students analyze the book jackets of books and then design one based on the typical characteristics of book jackets.

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