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Curated OER

Media Literacy Lesson Plans

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
Students familiarize themselves with the definition of media literacy and why it is important. In this media literacy lesson, students examine the front pages of three different types of newspapers. Students discuss the lead stories...
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Curated OER

Cell Community

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders use technology to review cell structure and function. In this cells less, 7th graders review the parts and functions of a cell, and use photography/video and PowerPoint to enhance their explorations.
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Aiga: Graphic Design Archives

For Students 9th - 10th
The AIGA archives cover a variety of design categories including book design, editorial design, experience design, illustration, information design, motion graphics, package design, and others.
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ArtLex

Art Lex: Graphic Design Course

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This site from Artlex is a lesson plan for a secondary level graphic design class designed by Michael Delahunt. There are many projects including: Designing a poster; Altering a photo; Photoshop Tricks; studying Logos; Designing logos;...
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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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New York Times

New York Times: The Art of Set Design: "The Light in the Piazza"

For Students 9th - 10th
An audio slideshow narrated by the set designer for the Tony Award-winning musical "The Light in the Piazza." Discusses the set designer's art as well as the designer's inspirations for the sets, both the exterior scenes of Florentine...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Design Packing to Safely Mail Raw Spaghetti

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will use their creative skills to determine a way to mail raw spaghetti. The students will need to choose a way to safely package their raw spaghetti using only the materials provided. To test the packing designs, the spaghetti...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Package Those Foods!

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This activity provides students with the opportunity to create a food package for a specific food. The students have three components to focus on in the design of their food package. The package will have to keep the food clean, protect...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Food Packaging

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This lesson focuses on how food packages are designed and made. Learners will learn three of the main functions of a food package. They will learn what is necessary of the design and materials of a package to keep food clean, protect or...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Designing a Package That Works

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
The goal is for learners to understand the basics of engineering associated with the packaging of items to preserve, market, and safely deliver products. The packaging for each type of use varies. While observing and thinking about all...
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D&t Online: Packaging

For Students 9th - 10th
Packaging a product is an important part of any manufacturing process. This site explains how to design and create packaging for a variety of shapes.
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Thinkport Education

Thinkport: Designing a Healthier, Happier Meal: Stem Career: Packaging Engineer

For Students 9th - 10th
See how packaging engineers who work in the food industry create many different kinds of food packaging.
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Other

Milwaukee Art Museum: You Can't Sell This Thing

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Introduce students to new product trademarks, logos, packaging, and advertising. Teams of students will design and create a logo or trademark, packaging box, and poster for original products.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Making Decisions: Packaging and the Environment

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity has students redesign and justify the packaging currently used in some consumer products. Design criteria include reducing the amount of packaging material by 25%.
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Thinkport Education

Thinkport: Designing a Healthier, Happier Meal: Explore Possibilities: Art

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore how attractive packaging sells kids meals at fast food restaurants.
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Marilyn J. Brackney

Imagination Factory: Wrap It Up for Chanukah

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Creative ideas for making unique and personalized packages for Hanukkah presents.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Lunch in Outer Space!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students learn about the unique challenges astronauts face while eating in outer space. They explore different food choices and food packaging. Students learn about the engineering design process, and then, as NASA engineering teams,...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Boxed in and Wrapped Up

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students find the volume and surface area of a rectangular box (e.g., a cereal box), and then figure out how to convert that box into a new, cubical box having the same volume as the original. As they construct the new, cube-shaped box...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: River Rewilding: Advanced Water Quality

For Students 9th - 10th
In this unit, students will try to improve stream quality and reduce human impacts by taking action.This Advanced Water Quality unit is packaged into three smaller parts: Part 1: Stream Habitat Assessment; Part 2: Macroinvertebrate...
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Juice Box Geometry

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Juice boxes are so convenient, just poke the straw in and sip away. It might surprise you how much thought goes into the design and manufacturing of a juice box. Each manufacturer has carefully calculated how big each side should be to...
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New York Times

New York Times: Comically Dead

For Students 9th - 10th
The artist Carlos Grangel discusses his character designs for the stop-motion animated film "Tim Burton's Corpse Bride."
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavor?

For Teachers 6th - 9th
In the first part of the activity, each student chews a piece of gum until it loses its flavor, and then leaves the gum to dry for several days before weighing it to determine the amount of mass lost. This mass corresponds to the amount...
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Simplicable: 25 Examples of Product Analysis

For Students 9th - 10th
This article describes 25 ways that products can be evaluated, for example, by cost, performance, ingredients, packaging, etc.
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New York Times

New York Times: Beauty and Humor (An Exhibition of the Work of Rudolf Stingel)

For Students 9th - 10th
In a narrated slideshow, art critic Roberta Smith discusses the work of Rudolf Stingel, whose large-scale works in a variety of media, including Styrofoam, were showcased in a cleverly interactive exhibit at the Whitney Museum of...

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