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Skyscrapers: Engineering Up!

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars build their own newspaper skyscrapers with limited materials and time. They identify several different structural engineering principles relating to skyscrapers. They explain how their towers resisted the wind load.
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Social Studies: Adinkra Printing

For Teachers 1st
First graders demonstrate a sense of artistic composition by creating shapes and symbols in the pattern of African Adinkra printing. They use glue to create a raised design and then print it on colored paper. Students use symbols from...
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Contour Drawing - Portrait - Elements and Principles of Design Review

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers create portrait with contour line - drawing from observation, then contrast warm and cool colors - work with pattern and textures. They work wet in wet graded wash technique and develop skills in using elements and...
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Fitness Concepts, Principles, and Benefitws

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders design an informative tri-fold fitness pamphlet for a fictitious fitness center that contains a persuasive paragraph encouraging fitness, that is attractive and has the five fitness components.
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Harmony - Principle of Design

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Students study the principle of design: Harmony. They
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Civil Engineering: Designing Bridges

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students examine the bridges of the United States. They discuss the concept of balance. They draw their own design of a suspension bridge.
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Paper Architecture - Designing Human Spaces

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students design, then construct an architectural structural model of a two-person dwelling. Then, Students, in groups, plan a city layout.
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Traditional Japanese Garden Design

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students create a miniature Japanese garden that incorporates the elements of traditional Japanese aesthetics. They study the simplicity, asymmetrical design and incorporate traditional structures.
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Designs for Urban Life

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students analyze the design of cities and systems as an architecture analysis. In this architecture analysis lesson plan, students complete image based discussion and two related activities for the lesson plan.
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Artsy Insects

For Teachers K - 2nd
Pupils identify and describe the elements of art and principles of design by creating several different butterfly pictures that represent color, shape, texture, pattern or symmetry.
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Code Makers - Electron Configuration, Aufbau Principle

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students write the electron configuration of elements using the Aufbau principle. For this chemistry lesson, students build their own key that demonstrates the principle.
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Interior Design, Lesson 6

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Learners summarize information learned from previous lessons, and apply them to their own project: redesigning their own bedrooms. They discuss the uniqueness of the place where one lives and its importance and apply all they have...
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Human Body Exhibit

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Explore human anatomy and physiology using models. Scholars study systems of the human body and design a display for a museum exhibit. To complete the activity, individuals create analogous models of their chosen human body systems.
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Self Portrait using watch parts and tin - Mixed media

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students create whimsical self portraits using watch parts and tin - recycling. They demonstrate safety in using tools. They use a variety of materials to create a work of art , and demonstrate understanding of the elements and...
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Understanding: Uncertainty

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students discuss the Heisenberg uncertainty principle and how it applies to the subatomic world. Working in groups, they design a model that would help others to understand the uncertainty principle. Written explanations are included...
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Our Green City

For Teachers K - 1st
Students practice beginning reading while exploring an environmental theme. In this our green city lesson, students create their own published books, examine phonemic awareness, alphabetic principle, comprehension, and vocabulary.
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Less is More: Realizing Mathematics Through Agriculture

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars study the architectural designs of different popular sites. In this math lesson, students draw a grid diagram. They explain what geodesic algorithms are used for.
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Advertising for Healthy Habits

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students create ads based on provided topic. In this digital art activity, students role play as graphic designers working on a project for a client. They research about certain health issues and prepare a public poster about it.
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Cardboard Structure: Pyramids

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students design a structure made of cardboard pyramids that will hold their weight. In this pyramid structure lesson, students determine a way to make a structure of interlocking pyramids that are sturdy enough to hold a student's...
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Gateway to the Arts

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students redesign a dead space in the school to create an interesting and stimulating visual environment. In this art design lesson, students look at how to redesign architectural space and research ways to enhance a space. Students then...
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How can my breakfast help the birds?

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders design farms with a bird's habitat in mind. In this farm lesson plan, 6th graders research how sun grown coffee destroys a bird habitat, and then they make their own farm with a bird's habitat being preserved. They then...
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An Uplifting Experience

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders research and complete a graphic organizer about the principles of flight. For this aviation lesson, 5th graders experiment to understand the work of Daniel Bernouli and his discoveries about air pressure. Students create...
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Logo Design and Ad Campaign Relating to Forestry Management.

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore organizations that promote effective marketing strategies and create their own visual symbols that benefit effective forestry cultivation.  In this creative lesson students study logos of organizations, create their...
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Interpreting Lao Design Drawing

For Teachers K - 6th
Students identify symmetry as a word and concept using drawings. The lesson is cross-cultural using traditional Lao Art. The goal is to then apply the skills of symmetry to personal works of art that are produced.

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