Use geometry to analyze various designs for packaging soda cans.

Identify the basic functions and techniques of advertising.

Explore the elements involved in book cover design.

Investigate the relationship between a book's cover design and it's contents by selecting a book to read based solely on the cover design.

A four-lesson unit in which students design clubhouses and learn about measurement, scale representation, and geometry in the process.

Focus on the importance of literary settings by creating a travel brochure for a location from a recently-read text.

Explore how comic books are made and learn terms and techniques associated with the genre.

Develop critical questions and evaluate political cartoons for their meaning, message, and persuasiveness.

Become acquainted with the terminology that describes comics and editorial cartoons and discuss how the cartoonists’ choices influence the messages that they communicate.

Try your hand at drawing the front-right-top view when given a three dimensional figure built from cubes.

Develop an understanding of how artists use color to set a tone or mood.

See how Pop artists, such as Andy Warhol and Claes Oldenburg, explore the line between fine art and popular culture and challenge the traditional role of the artist.

Use a Chris Van Allsburg picture book to explore ten international landmarks.

Learn the descriptive phrasing used in menus by examining those from local restaurants, and create a custom menu.

Review the packaging and transport that different foods require on the journey from the farm to the dinner table.

Learn about the characteristics of the Gilded Age and research the fine and performing arts of the era.

Develop an understanding of marketing and its influence.

Research the arts and culture of the Gilded Age through the architects, patrons, and mansions of Newport.

Write theme poems using content knowledge and sensory awareness of a familiar object.

Develop awareness of the concept of historic preservation and the attributes that may contribute to a location's historical significance.

Explore culture through the arts, recreation, folklore, and cultural diversity found in your home state.

Compare native vegetation in different parts of the United States and design a garden only using local plants.

Compare and contrast handmade and automated paper-making techniques.

Design a video camera to be worn by a humpback whale.

Discover the history of castles and corresponding architectural terms through a look at the significance of castles in the time of King Arthur.

Students describe folded-paper designs to each other using fractional and geometric terms.

Explore geometry and fractions through the design of a paper quilt.

Study data related to recyclable materials and develop plans to help the environment.

Create a game board based on products and factors.

Learn about the role that artists have played in the creation and maintenance of America's national parks.

Develop an understanding of the opportunities and problems related to communication technologies.

Identify strategies for increasing productivity and gain an understanding of how increased productivity impacts both consumers and producers.

Create a comic that will express a mathematical concept.

Gain an awareness of the human and environmental factors that make places unique through a look at the features that make your home region special.

Publish a classroom newspaper by becoming acquainted with the writing, editing, newspaper reading habits, layout, and design techniques.

Discover the impact three American inventors—Alexander Graham Bell, George Washington Carver, and Stephanie Kwolek—have had on American society and technology.

Share your invention with a presentation that incorporates experiment results and visual communication.

Evaluate the design considerations that go into creating a house for a President and recognize how and why James Hoban's original building has evolved into the White House we know today.

Construct a boat taking into consideration the Archimedes Principle, material properties, and design constraints.

Develop environmental print literacy.

Assess the technology, benefits, risks, and limitations proposed space station design plan.

Gain an awareness of the human and environmental factors that make places unique through a look at the features that make your hometown special.

Understand floating, sinking, density, and buoyancy and apply it to the design and testing of ships.

Consider how a flag represents a nation and its people.

Design a new subway station in Athens that includes a museum of ancient artifacts, artworks, and ruins.