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Educator Resources, Episode 1: Dream & Do

Watch video to learn more:

What makes something beautiful and useful?
What effect does creativity have on how things are made?
How is a popular “maker movement” reinventing ideas of “shop” work?
Why is math an important tool for creative artists?
What impact do designers have on our world?
What innovations might they create for the future?

Vocabulary Ideas

These words are used in the Dream & Do video. What do they mean?

Creativity
Graphics
Typography
Logo
Brainstorm
Rationale
Strategy
Anthropologist
Culture
Composition
Perspective
Articulate
Interface
Precision
Replicate
Calculation
Parameters
Engineering
Innovation

HISTORY, MATH & MORE

The video introduces people and practices that will fit well into lessons for math, history and other general education classes. Use these recommended resources to learn more and to help students prepare research papers related to subjects of interest:

Creativity & Innovation
Da Vinci
Fibonacci
Mathematics

Creativity & Innovation

PBS Resources

PBS Learning Media

Access to more than 800 resources related to creativity and innovation.

Maker Party

For teachers, hands-on engagement in science, technology, engineering, math and the arts.

Design Squad Nation

Connecting design process, engineering and things we use in everyday life.

More Resources

Build/Make an Invention

U.S. Patent & Trademark Office for Kids & Teens

Teen Inventors

U.S. Patent & Trademark Office for Kids & Teens

Resources for Teachers & Parents

U.S. Patent & Trademark Office for Kids & Teens

Smithsonian Institution Classroom Resources

includes lesson plans related to Art & Design, Science & Technology, History & Culture, Language Arts

Science of Innovation video series

U.S. Patent & Trademark Office for Kids & Teens

National Science Foundation Classroom Resources

Kids.usa.gov

Art of Video Games.

What is Industrial Design?

What is Industrial Design? – Professor Tom Ask

Design Thinking Class Exercises

Design Thinking Class Exercises – Professor Tom Ask

Grading Ruberic, clay

Industrial design grading rubric, clay

Grading Ruberic

Industrial design grading rubric

Smarthistory

Smarthistory is a small organization and the leading producer of free, high-quality educational videos for art and history

Da Vinci

PBS Resources

Portrait of Leonardo Da Vinci

Treasures of the World: Mona Lisa

Da Vinci Rules of Proportions

Nova’s Secret Life of Scientists & Engineers

Caryn Babaian (inspired by Da Vinci’s notebooks)

More Resources

Encyclopedia Britannica

Library of Congress

Leonardo’s Workshop: The Art and Science of Leonardo Da Vinci

Library of Congress

Teacher’s Guide – Leonardo’s Workshop: The Invention, Art and Science of Leonardo Da Vinci

Museum of Science

Leonardo Da Vinci Scientist, Inventor, Artist

Museum of Science

Teacher’s Guide – Using Leonardo’s Window

Da Vinci Science Center

Smarthistory

Smarthistory is a small organization and the leading producer of free, high-quality educational videos for art and history

Fibonacci

PBS Resources

Pi & The Fibonacci Sequence

Describing Nature With Math

More Resources

Encyclopedia Britannica

Fibonacci numbers

Mathisfun.com

Fibonacci Sequence

Mathisfun.com

Nature, The Golden Ratio, and Fibonacci too ...

Live Science

What is the Fibonacci Sequence?

ScienceNetLinks

American Association for the Advancement of Science

Mathematics

PBS Resources

The Great Math Mystery (premiered April 2015)

Get the Math

Virtual Reality & Mathematics

Math by Design: Sculpture

Math by Design: Architect

More Resources

Kids.usa.gov

Teacher Resources

Purplemath.com

including free lessons and homework support

Discovering the Art of Mathematics

Mathematical Association of America

Math & Art: The Good, the Bad, and the Pretty

MIT Blossoms: Math and Science Video Lessons for High School Classes

Arabesque: Where Art Meets Mathematics

MIT Blossoms: Math and Science Video Lessons for High School Classes

The Art of Approximation in Science & Engineering