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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSeeing Art in a Historical Context
Grades: 4 to 8Subjects: Visual Arts, English-Language Arts, Visual Arts & Performing ArtsThis lesson helps to develop the critical skill of “reading” a work of art. Students use their prior knowledge of a historical p...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0- Resource Type: Website / HyperLink
Superhighway Scholars Teacher Guide
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 8Subjects: Principles of Design, Visual Arts, Visual Arts & Performing ArtsTeachers’ guide for Nam June Paik’s multimedia installation work Electronic Superhighway designed for elementary-school students...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0 
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDesign It! Giving Voice to America
Grades: 4 to 8Subjects: United States History, Principles of Design, History-Social Science, Visual Arts & Performing ArtsLesson plan has students explore how postage stamps communicate messages about national identity, with four lessons on elements ...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkGateway to the Arts
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Principles of DesignIn this lesson plan, students redesign any dead space in the school building. They use 3-D modeling software as well as traditi...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkHello, My Name Is . . . Helvetica
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 3Subjects: English-Language Arts, Visual Arts & Performing ArtsIn this lesson plan, students learn art and geometry vocabulary by considering the shapes of letters in their own names. They p...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLeaves, Diamonds, Satin and Roses: Design Patterns in Everyday Life
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.This lesson plan asks students to collect data on their everyday observations. The class creates a graphic organizer to assembl...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLeveraging for a Better Lunch Line Experience
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: No subjects selected.In this lesson plan, students consider how to solve the problem of delays in the school cafeteria line. They work in groups to ...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkEducation, Design & Empowerment: Part Two (9-12)
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Principles of Design, EconomicsStudents examine how design can be a force in transforming lives. The lesson addresses a growing movement among designers to cre...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkEnter If You Will: The People's Design Award
Grades: 4 to 12Subjects: Principles of Design, Visual Arts & Performing ArtsLesson in which students analyze submissions to the Cooper-Hewitt's People's Design Award, conduct Internet research to learn ab...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkHigh-End/Low-End: Exploring Price & Value in Design (9-12)
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: No subjects selected.Lesson plan comparing high-end and low-end versions of everyday objects to consider the role that economics plays in design. The...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDesign a Latin American Restaurant
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language ArtsLesson plan for first-year Spanish students integrates vocabulary with examination of Latin American cultures. Students researc...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDesign for Social Justice
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: History-Social ScienceFollowing a reading of To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee and A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines, students identify social ...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDesigning Connections: Bringing Communities Together
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: History-Social ScienceLesson encourages students to examine the ethnic and socio-economic divides within their high school and community. They design ...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkElements for Disaster Reporting
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 8Subjects: English-Language ArtsLesson investigating how the media reports on natural disasters. Students devise their own assessment criteria for news reports ...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkA New Candidate for Animal Farm
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language ArtsLesson requires students to identify and analyze the effectiveness of propaganda, rhetoric, and satire as they read George Orwel...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: DocumentWorm Watching
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 3Subjects: Ecology & Ecosystems, Life Sciences, ScienceLesson plan observing the unique role earthworms play in building good soils. Takes a week to ten days. Includes extension activ...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0- Resource Type: Website / HyperLink
Making Pretzels
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 3Subjects: PhysicsProvides students with a first-hand experience about a familiar food (pretzels) that is made from wheat grains. Includes a reci...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0 
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAnd a Star to Steer Her By Field Trip Guide
Grades: 4 to 12Subjects: Human Space Exploration, SciencePre-field-trip teaching guide introducing students to the tools and techniques used to navigate by the stars. Provides classroo...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0- Resource Type: Website / HyperLink
The Alutiiq Education Guide
Grades: 4 to 8Subjects: United States History, Native Peoples, History-Social ScienceEducation guide with two lesson plans about the Alutiiq (also know as the Sugpiat people) people of Alaska. The first lesson bri...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0 
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkArt and Life of William H. Johnson: A Guide for Teachers
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Visual Arts, Visual Arts & Performing ArtsThis lesson looks at Johnson’s paintings in the context American history, addressing his life in Harlem and his works about the ...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0