Career Cluster: Arts, Entertainment, and Design

The Arts, Entertainment, and Design Career Cluster centers on creating, producing, and presenting artistic and design work across diverse platforms. Students prepare for creative careers in visual and performing arts, film, journalism, fashion, interior design, and emerging creative technologies.

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Learning Plans

Students practice event planning by creating a personalized party plan for a real client, using interviews and feedback to refine ideas, solve challenges, and organize logistics while applying creativity, communication, and critical thinking.

Students will consider the challenges they face in their personal, academic, social, and emotional lives. They will engage in the process of designing digital experiences to address real-world issues and improve their daily routines.

Students take on the role of a graphic designer to complete a poster project that meets the needs of their “client.”

Students discover what constitutes a natural disaster, explore the different professions involved with natural disaster response, identify steps they can take to help themselves and others be prepared for natural disasters, and educate individuals about natural disaster preparedness.

Students work in teams to design a product or process that solves the problem of tangled electronic device cords, developing what they see as the best solution within available time and materials.

Students create a healthy, simple energy bar recipe, design its marketing and branding, build a display box, and present their product to a group.

Students work in pairs or small groups to use the engineering design process to research, design, and create a toy or web-based game/app that both teaches age-appropriate skills or information and provides suitable play for young children.

Popsicle

Students survey peers about healthy concession products, choose one to test in class, and present it to a guest panel as a healthy option.

Bees on Honey Comb

Students solve the problem of excess beeswax, a byproduct of honey bees, by developing a useful beeswax product and marketing their product to be sold in a local boutique or farmers market.

Stuffed Animal

Students explore simple circuits and sewing techniques while designing and making a custom “smart” stuffed animal.

Computer Sticky Notes

Students create a feasible business plan for a chosen product or service, including marketing, cost analysis, and a prototype or service plan. They present their plans to guest “Sharks” or DECA/FBLA officers from the feeder high school.

Students conduct research and create three different types of advertisements for a Utah vacation spot to be used to promote tourism in Utah to people who already live and work in Utah.

Grafton Utah

Students study, collect, write, and tell stories about Utah in digital formats.