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Mission Patch
Pupils study mission patches, draw, design and describe their attributes. In this exploratory lesson students create their own mission patch.
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Pick It Up!
Students investigate recycling by creating receptacles that can hold trash or recyclable items. In this graphic design instructional activity, students encourage their classmates to help save the environment by using a recycling...
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Tour + Workshop = DESIGN: Form Follows Function
Students 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". Students discuss how the form follows the function. This lesson includes...
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Program Your Own Game
Students study basic computer programming and the work of software engineers. In this creative lesson students create their own software game.
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6-8 Interior Design: Designing My Dream Room
Students analyze interior design as a profession. In this interior design lesson, students design their own dream bedroom and explore interior design as a profession. Students draw a scaled drawing using graph paper and appropriate...
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Artful Boomerangs
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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Take a Seat: Exploring Chair Design
Students analyze chair design for its art. For this art analysis lesson, students analyze the art in the designs of chairs. Students complete image based discussion. Students complete three related projects.
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Design That Makes a Difference: Focus on Shelters and Water
Students analyze three different types of temporary shelters and their designs for environmental factors. In this shelter design lesson, students analyze how designers address environmental problems for homeless or refugees. Students...
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Everyday Marvels
Young scholars consider the meaning of innovation and analyze the design of objects. In this object design instructional activity, students examine revolutionary objects and their design. Young scholars complete discussion activities for...
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Travel By Design Brochure Creation
Twelfth graders create a travel brochure using computer software and the Internet. In this foreign country instructional activity, 12th graders create a travel brochure as a marketing tool in order to attract potential clients and...
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When Getting There is More Than Half the Battle
High schoolers investigate the 'Design for the Other 90%' exhibition about low-cost solutions to give the "other 90% of the world's population" access to services and amenities many of us take for granted. For this technology design...
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A Design for a Fireplace: Extreme Home Makeover
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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Design and Build a Tangle-free Headphone Holder
Students design, build and test a device to store headphones without tangling the wires. For this engineering lesson, students view web videos and documents about the design process. They work in groups to brainstorm, research, design,...
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Tell Me About It: What is Design?
Students create and present an original design. In this visual arts lesson plan, students watch a video about design and learn the elements of design. Then students work in groups to construct and present an original design.
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Lesson 2: Ultimate Classroom - Web Model
Students create a scale drawing. In this ultimate classroom lesson, groups of students create a scale drawing of the ultimate classroom. They explore the and explain the constructed design.
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Neighborhood Rubrics
Students use a rubric to analyze their neighborhood and write a persuasive essay about changes that should be made. In this writing lesson plan, students use a rubric to grade their neighborhood and brainstorm improvements. Students...
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Rebuild, Renew, Revitalize, Recreate new Orleans
Young scholars research post-Katrina career opportunities in New Orleans and in their own communities, then design a revitalization plan. In this research and design lesson, students use a variety of sources to find out how Hurricane...
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The Mind Behind Design
Students explore a design website and journal their findings. In this design and writing lesson plan, students analyze the design process and discuss benefits to society through design. Students choose a design that they feel is the most...
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The Night Chanter Project
Young scholars sketch a design based on "The Night Chanter." In this art design lesson plan, students listen to the Native American prayer, "The Night Chanter" and illustrate their personal vision of the chant. Young scholars critique...
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Designing Scavengers
Students write a headline that captures the most important aspects of the People's Design Award. In this design lesson, students are introduced to The People's Design Award and collaborate to create a headline for a newspaper article....
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Every Object Tells a Story
Students read the story behind objects in the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum and create a story about an object in the exhibit. In this design lesson plan, students explore the "Design for the Other 90%" exhibition and create a...
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Fly, Fly Away
Students use materials from their own environment to design a kite. In this kite design lesson, students research the history of kites and obtain a formal mathematical definition of a kite. Students sketch kite designs after discovering...
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You've Got Chocolate on my Peanut Butter
Students solve design problems. In this art and design lesson, students create a picture by analyzing two others, and make a prototype of a building. The small group activities call for creativity and ingenuity as well as the ability to...
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Build-A-Bird
Students create an imaginary bird. In this anatomy instructional activity, students analyze how artists represent birds historically, then determine the anatomical aspects that suit a bird to its habitat. Using this information, students...