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Element of Color

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Students develop their own original color by using only primary colors, black and white. As a class, they review the warm, cool, secondary and tertiary colors. To end the lesson, they examine the effect of different colors on the human...
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Exploring Color Vocabulary

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students explore color terms and related meanings and metaphors in cultural and literary contexts. They use the main colors to explore synonymous color terms and related metaphorical meanings of color words. Students recognize the...
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In Depth with the Full Spectrum

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the basic color wheel and the ways that artists use color to guide the viewer's attention through a painting's composition. A creation of a sense of depth in a two dimensional space and the effect of color on mood and...
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"Warm and Cool Picasso"

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Here is a really neat looking project that explores warm, cool, and neutral colors. First the class talks about color families, then they check out Cubism, and finally they get busy making some chunky art. They trace a shape, draw lines...
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3-in-1 Color Tool

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students use a new tool to help them be more creative in designing their quilts. After watching a demonstration, they design their own color combinations and select the fabric for their quilt. They reiew the color wheel and warm and...
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Color Schemes -- Lesson 2

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students are shown a PowerPoint presentation on the various color schemes. As a class, they are shown the same color scheme in the classroom on paper. They are introduced to new vocabulary and review the color wheel. To end the...
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4 Part Color Study in Painter Classic

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students use the Wacom tablet to demonstrate observational drawings, design principles, and color schemes. Students create four different images of a common art or graphics tool based on four color schemes and a different effect.
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Color and Composition for the Creative Quilter

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Students explore free-motion machine quilting through three exercises. They enhance patterns, make their own patterns and stitch a realistic quilted drawing. Students create a color wheel and develop a variety of methods that enable them...
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Color Mixing/ Fantastic Shapes in Paining

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners paint shapes in pictures using all of the colors in the color wheel. In this colors lesson plan, students learn about primary and secondary colors, and create non representational art with the colors.
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Color Roundup

For Teachers 1st - Higher Ed
Students visualize what happens when a 2 foot long piece of string is put through the middle of a cardboard circle with rainbow colors on it. The string is wound up by the students and then students have to observe what happens when the...
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Complex Color Wheels

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students design a color wheel which incorporates 12 colors, tints and shades of each color, black and white within a circle.
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Lesson 1: In Depth with the Full Spectrum

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers study the ways in which an artist can use color. They view various images of artwork and discuss the effect of color on spacial dimensions, focal points, tone, and mood.
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Clothing Color Wheel -- Lesson 2

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students review the primary, secondary and tertiary colors. Using magazines and fabrics, they create a color wheel to show the correct order of colors. To end the lesson plan, they share their color wheels to the class and discuss why...
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How Do you Feel?

For Teachers K - 6th
Students discover how moods and perceptions can be affected by colors. As a class, they create their own color wheel and identify primary and secondary colors. They draw their own cool and warm color mosaic and discuss how each one of...
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Vertical and Horizontal Lines

For Teachers 1st
First graders view works from Mondrian such as "Composition with Red, Yellow and Blue" receiving explantion of the primary and secondary colors and the color wheel and vertical and horizontal lines. They glue black strips to the...
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Color Schemes - Interior Design

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students discover the effects of color.
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Mixing Primary and Secondary Colors

For Teachers K - 6th
Students use Play Doh to make a color wheel. In this color wheel lesson plan, students use primary and secondary colors of Play Doh to make a color wheel.
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Pocket Full of Posies: Ceramics

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
After studying the plant or flower life cycle, have the class create a basket of flowers out of clay. They hone their ceramics skills while they push, pull, then paint clay to look like flowers they've seen in nature. There are several...
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Wonderful World of Color

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students compare the paintings and lives of William H. Johnson and Henri Matisse through their use of line, color, and patterns to publish an individual fact book. They then create an imaginary painting while listening to classical music.
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Colors of Our World

For Students 2nd - 3rd
Young learners determine the answers to 11 clues that can be answered with color vocabulary words. They fill in the crossword puzzle using the clues provided!
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Explore the Elements of Art

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students recognize elements of art such as texture, shape line and color.  In this elements of art lesson, students create a still life picture with oil pastel or crayons.  Students define elements of art vocabulary. Students relate...
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Exploring Neighborhoods through Art

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore neighborhoods. In this color and social studies cross-curriculum instructional activity, students listen to Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson, then compare and contrast neighborhoods. Students mix primary...
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Color Theory Unit: Op Art Complementary Color Designs

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students learn skills in mixing and applying paint while enhancing understanding of complementary colors.
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Japanese Tea and Teacups

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Upper graders use the potter's wheel to make Japanese style tea cups, which they will use in a Japanese style tea ceremony. They hone their sculpting techniques while exploring Japanese cultural and the history of tea. There are two...

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