MarcoPolo Design-related Lesson Plans
Soda Cans
Did You Get the Message?
Book Report Alternative: Creating a New Book Cover
Book Report Alternative: Hooking a Reader with a Book Cover
Junior Architects
Constructing a Three-Dimensional Model
Creating a Two-Dimensional Blueprint
Travel Brochures: Highlighting the Setting of a Story
The Comic Book Show and Tell
Analyzing the Purpose and Meaning of Political Cartoons
Analyzing the Stylistic Choices of Political Cartoonists
Building Using the Front-Right-Top View
Color Me Happy: Color, Mood, and Tone
Making the Ordinary Pop
My Favorite Place
Looking at Landmarks: Using a Picture Book to Guide Research
Cooking up Descriptive Language: Designing Restaurant Menus
Paper Bead Necklace
Hats Off to Color
Packaging and Transport
Poster and Press
Arts of the Gilded Age
Culture and Society of the Gilded Age
Media Awareness
Three Newport Mansions of the Gilded Age
Shape Poems: Writing Extraordinary Poems About Ordinary Objects
Wonka's New Product
Sharing Your Town's History
Mapping Your State's Culture
Designing a Native Plants Garden
Paper Production
Build a Whale of a Crittercam
Designing a Shoe Box Set for "Willy Wonka"
Designing a "Willy Wonka" Board Game
Castles & Cornerstones
Describing Designs
Making a Mini-quilt
How to Bag It?
Making Your Own Product Game
Discovering National Parks
Communications Technologies
Creating Costumes
Patterns of a Lighthouse
WIDGET PRODUCTION: Producing More, Using Less
Creating Comic Strips
Architecture and Nature
Architectural Clues
Community Buildings
Moving 1,000 Miles
Walk in My Shoes
Regional Guidebook
Creating a Classroom Newspaper
Inventing and Presenting Unit 1: Analyzing Nonfiction and Inventing Solutions
Inventing and Presenting Unit 2: Effective Speeches and Building the Invention
Inventing and Presenting Unit 3: Persuasive Speaking and Invention Promotion
How Was the White House Designed?
How and Why Has the White House Changed?
From the White House of Yesterday to the White House of Today
Buoyant Boats
From Stop Signs to the Golden Arches: Environmental Print
Designing a Space Station
Your Special Town
Grand Designs and Great Failures
Elements and Principles of Design
Olympic Emblems
Why Do We Have an American Flag?
Ancient Greece
Building a Greek Subway Museum
The Wright Way