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