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, your computer, your house, and your town all have in common? Find out on this interactive site that is all about design and the visual world. 3d&i is a virtual learning space where students, ages nine to twelve, can explore the world of design. The site has three major areas and can be easily navigated in a variety of ways.

In the Discover area, kids can read stories behind the design of various things in the world and about the designers who created them--both contemporary and historical.

The main area of the site is the Design section where kids get to become designers themselves by using the online tools and resources available to respond to certain challenges like "Design a Personal Explorer Pod." Students can then submit their designs for inclusion in an online gallery and see what others have created.

The third area, Discuss, offers students a chance to discuss various issues about design that are posed by three animated characters, and to read what others have to say about the same topics.

While this site is intended fur middle-school age students, there's something here for everyone who is interested in design and its impact on our daily lives. A teacher's guide is available in PDF (Portable Document Format) The de facto standard for document publishing from Adobe. On the Web, there are countless brochures, data sheets, white papers and technical manuals in the PDF format.  format.

Kudos to the team of designers and educators This is a list of educators. See also: Education, List of education topics.
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 who put together this fantastic website, and to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) is a private non-profit corporation which is chartered and funded by the United States Federal Government to promote public broadcasting.

The CPB was created on November 7, 1967 when U.S. president Lyndon B.
 for lending its support. If you teach about design in your classroom, you'll you'll  

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you'll you will or you shall
you'll will
 appreciate all this site has to offer.
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Title Annotation:interactive design Web site
Author:Roland, Craig
Publication:School Arts
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Dec 1, 2003
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