Indigenous peoples were able to gather their most basic needs for shelter using the items around them. Before lumber became the go to, adobe was a staple building material for the southwest and other Indigenous communities. But what makes this humble brick so simple yet sturdy and sustainable?

Setup of Adobe Illustrator and page setup including page settings, grid settings, rulers, setting origin points, tools and other items necessary to set up an Illustrator document.

5:14 minutes long.

Fundamentals of digital image processing, retouching, and painting as used on the web in business. Includes overview of image design process, from digitizing images to outputting them to the web. Includes intro to Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects.

We design and create objects to make our lives easier and more comfortable. The houses in which we live are excellent examples of this. Depending on your local climate, the features of your house have been designed to satisfy your particular environmental needs: protection from hot, cold, windy and/or rainy weather. In this activity, students design and build model houses, then test them against various climate elements, and then re-design and improve them. Using books, websites and photos, students learn about the different types of roofs found on various houses in different environments throughout the world.

Students brainstorm and discuss the different types of materials used to build houses in various climates. They build small models of houses and test them in different climates.

This syllabus for a semester-long college course includes the course description, relevance, required materials, learning outcomes, and topical calendar.

Students conduct an experiment to determine how varying the composition of a construction material affects its strength. They make several adobe bricks with differing percentages of sand, soil, fibrous material and water. They test the bricks for strength by dropping them onto a concrete surface from progressively greater heights. Students graph the experiment results and use what they learn to design their own special mix that maximizes the bricks' strength. During the course of the experiment, students learn about variables (independent, dependent, control) and the steps of the engineering design process.

This game was made to help review skills learned in an "Image Editing with Photoshop" Course. Contents include:

15 different PSD BINGO cards with images as smart objects to be manipulated per teacher’s instructions
Set of the 15 bingo cards as JPG to print out to have students cross out the images after they've made the changes on the PSD image
Instructor Image Card -A page with all of the images to draw out of a hat, bowl or bag.
32 Full size copyright-friendly (OER) images that the teacher can use to demonstrate the instructions.
3 additional images for Overlays as part of the instructions
"Before" and “After” images (PSD) to show what each image should look like after applying the changes
List of the steps for the different manipulation to be done for each photo when it is chosen
Attribution list of all the photos' OER sources