Curated OER
Package Design
Twelfth graders utilize the computer and various software programs in order to design a 3 dimensional package which they submit a cost estimate sheet of production in their oral presentation.
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Materials Engineering: Designing Walls
Students discover how the matierals in the earth can be used to make walls and buildings. They examine the Great Wall of China and its engineering. They complete the unit by creating their own wall from a design they drew.
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Finding Historical Motifs in Today's Furniture
Students observe and explain continuity with the past in contemporary furniture design.
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Leaf Stencil Design
Students design a pattern from a single shape and use overlapping to create color blends. They experiment with the effects of using a stencil.
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Ink Blot Designs
Students create an ink blot and examine it to find a shape that inspires a picture. They illustrate their picture with details and background design and color it in.
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Hidden Jewels of Geometry
Learners identify different geometric shapes, and arrange them artistically in original jewelry designs.
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Interior Designer for a Day
Seventh graders organize a 20 x 17 room with a given set of furniture pieces. Arrangement is to be based on maximum comfort and practicality. This lesson is a good way to teach and reinforce the mathematical concept of area.
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One Person's Garbage, Another Person's . . .?
High schoolers list many, different and unusual items that could be constructed out of refuse and found objects.
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Rocket Launch
Young scholars participate in design and engineering activities pertaining to model and real rockets. They observe the launch a model rocket.
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You Can't Sell This Thing
Students, in teams, design and create a logo/trademark, packaging box, and poster for advertising their new product/invention. They present their new product/invention, and information about the target audience, to the class.
Curated OER
Create a Wrapping Cloth Design
Pupils create wrapping clothes using paper or cloth scraps being sure to find or make geometric shapes. They create a visually balanced composition including symmetry,and repeated patterns.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Open Course Ware: Music and Theater Arts: Principles of Design
Course homepage for "The Principles of Design." In this course, students will learn about the principles of theater design, emphasizing script analysis. Links lead to the course syllabus, calendar, readings, assignments, study materials,...
McGill University
Canadian Architecture 101
Canada Council for the Arts supports Architecture in Canada; this website helps younger students explore uniquely Canadian architecture. There are direct links to famous buildings in all ten provinces and eight different types of...
University of Illinois
University of Illinois: Modern American Poetry: Robert Frost (1874 1963)
Critical analysis of numerous Frost poems by foremost literary critics like William Pritchard. This is a great resource for students learning how to analyze Frost's poetry.
Kent State University
Rashid Bin Muhammad: Design and Analysis of Algorithms
This site contains the lecture notes from Dr. Muhammad's course on algorithm design and analysis.
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University of Texas
Inside Mathematics: Sorting Shapes [Pdf]
This task challenges a students knowledge of 2-dimensional geometrical shapes to sort shapes and to design a shape that has a given set of attributes.
Other
Royal Armouries: Web Quest: Creative Textiles: Create a Wall Hanging
After virtually exploring galleries at the Royal Armouries Museum, students design and create a wall hanging for the museum entrance using textile techniques.
Other
Fantasy Design
Fantasy Design is a European school project that introduces the concept of product design to participating schools. You can learn about the program, see the resulting student product ideas, and get useful teaching resources to try...
Rice University
Rice: Design Patterns for Parsing
A description of the design patterns that are common in software engineering.
Other
National Engineers Week Foundation: Flinker
Students investigate with common objects to see if they can make something that neither floats nor sinks, but rather "flinks" in the middle.
PBS
Pbs Online News Hour: The Stuff of Life: u.s. Design 1975 2000
PBS profiles the exhibit at the Denver Art Museum about how design is relevant in our society. There are interviews, images, and video--enough for developing your own lesson plan.
Other
Kid Wind Project: Wind Turbine Blade Design
Learn how blade design affects the power output of a wind turbine. This is a short description but links to extensive information, a PowerPoint, and a lesson on designing your own turbine blades.
Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences
Powerhouse Museum: Australian Wetlands Designer
The Powerhouse Museum of Sydney, Australia presents "Australian Wetlands Designer" from the exhibit "Australian Designers at Work". Meet wetlands designer Peter Adcock and learn about the relatively new field of environmental design,...
Other
Introducing Plain Language
This site by Plain Language Online states that plain language "begins with the needs of the reader," which will determine why and how the writer writes. It goes on to elaborate on audience and purpose, idea organization, use of...