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CBS

Tech Republic: Project Manager: Graphics 101

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Detailed beginner's tutorial in creating online graphics. Requires access to a bitmap editor. Choose among topics, or work the entire 15 page tutorial in order.
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Other

Kids Think Design: A Design Resource for Kids, Parents, and Teachers

For Students 9th - 10th
A fantastic resource for future designers. Students can tap into their creative juices through various interactive activities and by learning about professionals in their field of interest. Design fields include fashion, graphic,...
Article
Other

New Entrepreneur: 6 Questions to Ask Before You Design Print Publications

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An article on the questions that need answering for successful designed print publications. Includes purpose, image, type and graphics mix, and information hierarchy. W.11-12.6 Technology
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University of Cambridge: Inclusive Design Toolkit

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides tons of information about inclusive design. It has an Exclusion Calculator that can be used to assess a product once you understand the principles of inclusive design, as well as the Sight Exclusion Estimator -...
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Incredible Art Department

The Incredible Art Department: Art Jobs & Careers

For Students 9th - 10th
A resource for exploring a wide range of careers in the arts, from advertising and animation to video games and web design.
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Other

Wizhat: How to Design a Great Web Site

For Students 9th - 10th
Information on Web designing. Includes learning HTML, write what you're good at, color and design are important, and using tables. Includes example pages of techniques.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Layouts in Context

For Students 9th - 10th
In this tutorial, you will learn how to distinguish and name different layout examples in visual design. The lesson looks at a magazine article, a graphic design piece, a book cover, a magazine cover, and a movie poster.
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Other

Web Reference: Rough It Up: Production Graphics

For Students 9th - 10th
An article about using abstract shapes and positions of images to create interesting effects. Includes a tutorial.
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The Franklin Institute

The Franklin Institute: Minutes From Me: Add Graphics to the Links Web Page

For Students 9th - 10th
A great way to make a web page interesting is to use pictures,or graphics. This site describes how to integrate images into a web page to make it more appealing.
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Other

Write Design: Graphic Organizers: Evaluate

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Lists and describes several types of graphic organizers which fall under the "evaluate" mold, including PMI and KWLH charts (consult the site for what these terms mean).
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University of Virginia

University of Virgina: Structural Behavior and Design Approaches

For Students 9th - 10th
From the Introduction to Structural Design web site. A page of well-written lecture notes on the various structural qualities of building materials. A comparison is made of the strength, stiffness, stability and ductility of materials,...
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Other

Write Design: Graphic Organizers

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site explores what graphic organizers are and why they are such valuable instructional tools. Five main types of organizers are addressed: webs, charts, trees, chains, and sketches.
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: Enrique Chagoya

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Enrique Chagoya is described here along with information on his contributions to art through graphic design and illustration.
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Other

The American Package Museum

For Students 9th - 10th
Get a glimpse of consumer products and their package designs from the early 20th century. Each image includes a dime so that you get an idea of the size of each package. On some of the products you can get a virtual 3D image.
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Career Profile: Multimedia Artist or Animator

For Students 9th - 10th
If you have an artistic bent combined with an interest in computer graphic design, the career of multimedia artist or animator might be something for you to consider. This Science Buddies site lays out the requirements needed to become a...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Civil Rights Movement Photo Story Timeline

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson students will be able to explain various events that took place during the Civil Rights Movement. The students will be divided into groups of 5. Each student within the group will receive an individual role of...
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Next.cc

Next: Cartoons

For Students 3rd - 8th
Cartoon have been around for over 100 years and the art form is growing. Here you can have fun creating your own comic strip character and storyline.
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Community Learning Network

Cln: Instructional Materials in Media Literacy Studies

For Students 9th - 10th
CLN "Theme Pages," focus on specific topics within Media Literacy/Studies. CLN's theme pages are collections of useful Internet educational resources within a narrow curricular topic and contain links to two types of information....
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Prose Constructed Response Organizer [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This Center for Urban Education resource provides a downloadable graphic organizer designed for preparing a constructed response that must compare three sources: two articles and a video.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Gps Art

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students design their own logo or picture and use a handheld GPS receiver to map it out. They write out a word or graphic on a field or playground, walk the path, and log GPS data. The results display their "art" on their GPS receiver...
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Tour Egypt

Tour Egypt: Overview of Pyramid Construction

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides a description of the design of step pyramids and true pyramids found in Egypt, as well as a discussion of construction techniques with excellent graphics.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Lesson Summary: Equilibrium in the Ad as Model

For Students 9th - 10th
In this lesson summary review and remind yourself of the key terms and graphs related to a short-run macroeconomic equilibrium. Topics include how to model a short-run macroeconomic equilibrium graphically as well as the relationship...

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