AccessArt
https://www.accessart.org.uk
A website containing an evolving collection of visual resources.
ACE Mentor Program
Will there be enough architects, construction managers and engineers to fill the industry's needs ten years from now? The ACE Mentor Program of America, Inc. is working hard to make sure there are. ACE is an acronym for architecture, construction, and engineering.
America’s Favorite Architecture
https://www.favoritearchitecture.org
150 favorite buildings in the United States with descriptions and highlights of each building.
American Institute of Architects
https://www.aia.org
American Planning Association
https://www.planning.org
Site contains lesson plans, youth charettes, etc.
American Society of Civil Engineers
https://www.asce.org
American Society of Landscape Architects
https://www.asla.org
Teacher Resources. The Roof is Growing! is a classroom program developed by the American Society of Landscape Architecture (ASLA) to engage and educate middle school students (grades 6-8) about green roofs and their environmental benefits. A green roof is a roof substantially covered with vegetation.
Landscape architecture career information for students
Architecture in Education, Philadelphia
https://www.aiaphila.org/aie
Contains several resources for teachers interested in incorporating architecture, landscape architecture, and other design into the classroom.
Arcspace
https://www.arcspace.com
Arcspace is an architecture and design magazine that features today's most creative projects as well as the most influential of the past.
Center for Media Literacy
https://www.medialit.org
Dedicated to promoting and supporting media literacy education as a framework for accessing, analyzing, evaluating, creating and participating with media content, the Center for Media Literacy works to help citizens, especially the young, develop critical thinking and media production skills needed to live fully in the 21st century media culture.
Center for Urban Pedagogy
https://www.anothercupdevelopment.org
CUP is a nonprofit research and design office dedicated to producing pedagogical and activating work about the built environment.
Center for Understanding the Built Environment
https://www.cubekc.org
CUBE brings together educators with community partners to effect change that will lead to a quality built and natural environment, one and interdependent.
Cities and Towns, Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress
https://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/cityhome.html
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
https://www.cooperhewitt.org
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution is the only museum in the United States devoted exclusively to historic and contemporary design. The Museum believes that design shapes our objects, environments, and communications, making them more desirable, functional, and accessible. The Museum celebrates the nature of design and explores its impact on the quality of our lives.
Design Institute at the University of Minnesota
https://www.design.umn.edu
The Design Institute develops advanced research, educational programs and interdisciplinary partnerships to improve design in the public realm.
Design It Yourself Kids
https://d-i-y-kids.blogspot.com
Blog and Website featuring Design projects for kids.
Design Writing Research
https://www.designwritingresearch.org
Ellen Lupton's personal website which provides essays, teaching materials, links, free advice, and more.
Donors Choose
https://www.donorschoose.org
Connects teachers with donor funding for proposed projects
Education Development Center "Imagination Place"
https://www.edc.org/CCT/imagination_place
The Futures Channel
https://www.thefutureschannel.com/movies/design_movies.php
Resource of videos to use in the classroom, including design videos.
Google SketchUp
https://www.sketchup.com
Google’s 3D modeling software.
Great Buildings
https://www.greatbuildings.com
Architectural images and plans for landmark buildings around the world.
The Heritage Education Network
https://histpres.mtsu.edu/then/index.html
Includes lesson plans, activities, ideas, and resources for teachers.
Intel Design and Discovery
https://www97.intel.com/DISCOVER/DesignDiscovery/DD_Curriculum/default.aspx
Intel’s Design and Discovery curriculum is a comprehensive inquiry-based curriculum, which introduces students ages 11-15 to engineering through design.
"Kids Design the Future" on the University of Maryland website
https://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/kiddesign
Materials for the Arts, NYC
https://www.mfta.org
Materials for the Arts provides New York schools and organizations with materials.
National Building Museum
https://www.nbm.org
Created by an act of Congress in 1980, the National Building Museum is America's premier cultural institution dedicated to exploring and celebrating architecture, design, engineering, construction, and urban planning.
National Park Service--Teaching with Historic Places
https://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/twhp
National Register of Historic Places by the National Park Service
https://www.cr.nps.gov/nr
National Trust for Historic Preservation
https://www.nationaltrust.org
NEXT.cc
https://www.next.cc/
Description: NEXT.cc is an eco web that develops ethical imagination and environmental stewardship. Introducing what design is, what it does, and why it is important across nine scales- nano, pattern, object, space, architecture, neighborhood, urban, regional and global, NEXT.ccÕs 101 journeys link with 1000 museums, institutions, and practices connecting ideas with advocacy for our sustainable future. NEXT.cc hopes to reach the 50 million K12 students, their teachers and their families with meaningful learning experiences tapping individual interests and having a positive influence on lives.
PBS
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/bridge/build.html
Several resources and activities about bridges.
Project for Public Space
https://www.pps.org
PPS has an international reputation for its work on the design and management of public spaces. A non-profit, PPS was founded in 1975 to continue the pioneering work of writer-sociologist William H. Whyte. PPS has helped over 1,000 communities in 44 states and 12 countries improve their parks, markets, streets, transit stations, libraries and countless other public spaces.
The Salvadori Center
https://www.salvadori.org
Involved in the daily challenge of integrating specialized knowledge in architecture, structural engineering, urban studies and environmental social science with the teaching and learning of core curricular subjects.
Show Me
https://www.show.me.uk/topicpage/Art-and-Design.html
The UK website, Show Me, contains projects, ideas, galleries, and games, inspired by gallery exhibits in museums from across the world.
Society of Architectural Historians
https://www.sah.org