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Video: Discovering Your "D Spot": Straight Talk about Design.

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1. What is Art?
2. Navy Sail Design
3. Redesign the Rover: Mars Research Year-Round
4. Designing Musical Instruments
5. You're a Grand Old Group
6. Undercover Detectives in Search of the Good Citizen
7. Microbiology Design Challenge
8. Elements of Civilization
9. It's a Wrap
10. Mastermind

Video: City of Neighborhoods: Fulton Street Mall

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1. What Schools Can Learn From Google, IDEO, and Pixar
2. How A 21-Year-Old Design Student's Sleeping-Bag Coat Could Break The Cycle Of Homelessness
3. Re-design the supermarket
4. In 1910, French illustrator envisioned the future. He had some great 'wild' ideas.
5. A Beer Bottle That Doubles as a Brick
6. The School Day of the Future is DESIGNED
7. Biomimcry and Design Meet
8. In the Classroom, Students Use Design to Solve Real-World Problems
9. Mom as curator, Frig as gallery
10. No Right Brain Left Behind

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Lesson Plans

  • Design-related Lessons:
    • 1-20
    • 21-40
    • 41-60
    • 61-80
    • 81-105

PBS Teacher Source

Design-related Lessons (1-20)

1. The Geometry of Bicycle Designs

2. Model Car Design

3. Patterns and Weaving

4. International Design Contest

5. Graphic Design: Using Symmetry to Create Corporate Logos (Grade Level 6–8)

6. Flying High: Cockpit Confusion

7. SCIENCE ITALIAN STYLE: Renaissance Machines

8. RENOVATE A ROOM: Imagine redecorating a bedroom

9. Plan a Park (from New York History)

10. Scaling the Pyramids

11. Flinker, Design an object that neither floats, nor sinks, but remains suspended in water.

12. Voyage of Doom, design and constucht a cofferdam

13. Will Robots take over? Egg-dropp activity

14. Rube Goldberg Challenge

15. Visionary Inventions

16. Art in the 21st Century—Maya Lin

17. Great Lodges - Design Your Own Park and Lodge

18. George Shrinks - What Can You Make?

19. Secrets of the Dead - To Build A Bridge

20. Arthur - Making Shapes



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