Sustainable design is a philosophy of developing products in line with social, economic, and ecological sustainability principles. In design, it is important to understand the distinction between Green Design and Sustainable Design....

[Free Registration/Login Required] Design Toolkit for Teachers from theVictoria and Albert Museum is a guide to using museums to inspire design and technology projects. It includes information on why to use a museum to support the design...

What does innovation look like, and how can one generate innovative ideas in the classroom? This collection is built around "design thinking" and is intended to help educators and learners explore the invention of real, practical...

If you are interested in both art and engineering, you might like to investigate the career of commercial and industrial designer. This career designs products that are functional and pleasant to the eye. This Science Buddies site lays...

This resource provides occupational information about graphic designers.

Children will learn about and explore measurement to successfully design a dog house for his or her cutout paper dog. Each section of this weeklong adventure is introduced by a video clip or online game that encourages children to...

A science activity for tween students using science and engineering skills to design a space probe to explore the solar system with. Complete lesson plan is provided to guide classroom work.

An industrial designer shares his examples of products that are designed so well that it would be pointless to tinker any further with them. Teachers should be aware that one product is a handgun. Many of the others are examples of...

Biography of influential French fashion designer, Christian Dior.

Learn how an all girls high school robotics team designed then built a robot to compete in competitions.

Practice questions on principles of experimental design.

A designer's portal featuring writings, news, and critical essays on graphic design, social innovation, urbanism, popular culture, and criticism.

In Module 6 of this course on web design, students learn how web designers use Cascading Style Sheets, i.e., CSS, for formatting elements of web pages to make them visually appealing and consistent across a web site.

In Module 4 of this course on web design, students learn how to add hyperlinks, images, and tables to a web page using the hypertext components in HTML.

Students are challenged to design a healthy city in this unit plan. The cross-curricular unit covers content standards for ninth grade in science, language arts, world geography, and math. Students explore air quality and the impact it...

In Module 7 of this course on web design, students learn how to use CSS style rules to create the page layout, color scheme, and typography for a web site's design. From this, they learn how to create a template that can be used over and...

This handy page will help teachers in the research assignment design area so critical to the development of information literacy.

A comprehensive resource probing students to consider how to design a sustainable city. Find lesson guides, activities, and a video to enrich study.

Video program explains the difference between observation and experiment and the principles of experiment design. Lesson draws on real-life example of heart disease study and a double-blind experiment. [28:39]

This tutorial from Cornell University's College of Veterinary Medicine explains what a cross-sectional study is, its key characteristics, how to assess events and outcomes, and some special considerations when choosing sample...

The goal of Universal Design is to create spaces and products that are as usable as possible to the greatest number of people despite their differences. This page is a course introduction and provides a brief description of universal...

The Princeton Review provides information on a career as a Website designer. Includes educational requirements that are needed, future outlook for jobs in the field, and facts and figures on salary, etc.

Understand the design criteria that should be met by any gear design to meet the American Gear Manufacturers Association standards. The accompanying video discusses how the design inputs (power transmitted, space constraints, and...

Learn about the education and training required to become an instructional designer.