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ABCya

Ab Cya: Shapes & Colors Bingo

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This game enables children to practice recognizing shapes and colors in a fun way. All of the shapes listed in the Common Core standards for Kindergarten are included in the game. There are three modes of play: shapes only, colors only...
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NumberNut

Number Nut: Colors and Shapes

For Students 3rd - 5th
A succinct overview of colors and shapes with links to two shape games. In Shape Name Memory Challenge you match the shape with its name. In Three-Dimensional Shape Quiz, you must answer the quiz question by clicking on the correct color...
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Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College: Mqed: Color Harmonies and Algebra Tiles

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
The design project examines geometric shapes, color harmonies, and composition. An instructor sheet and student handout are included.
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Other

Up to Ten: Freestyle Drawing With Shapes and Colors

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Choose a shape, then a color, and draw anything you want.
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Math Is Fun

Math Is Fun: Shapes Freeplay

For Students 9th - 10th
Play with a variety of shapes: color them, arrange them in patterns, copy them, and learn their names.
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Department of Defense

Do Dea: Spreadsheet Software: M3: L3: Can You Draw It? Working With Shapes

For Students 9th - 10th
In Module 3 Lesson 3 of this course on spreadsheets, students learn how to insert shapes into a spreadsheet and enhance them by resizing, rotating, changing line width, adding color and text, etc. Includes slideshow tutorials.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Activity 1: Seeing Light and Color

For Students 9th - 10th
This activity focuses on using a box and a ball to experiment with light, shadows, and color. The goals are: Practice looking at light and shadow; Analyze how lighting influences the shape (soft/hard), color (hue) and value...
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White House Historical Association

White House Historical Association: Colors and Shapes of the White House

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Learning resource for K-3 about some of the different rooms in the White House as well as how they are decorated and how they are used.
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Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation

Guggenheim Museum: Looking at Art: Art Investigations: Color and Mood

For Students 3rd - 8th
How can colors affect the mood of a painting? Take a look at Josef Albers's "Homage to the Square" and respond to prompts asking you to observe the painting's color and how it would be different if the artist used different colors. A...
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Other

Dltk's: Coloring Pages for Kids

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This site provides printable color pages on a vast array of topics including the alphabet, holidays, shapes, countries, etc. It also offers puzzle pages such as color-by-number, connect the dots, and hidden pictures.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Sorting by Color

For Teachers K Standards
Counting bears that are the same size and shape help students focus on just one attribute.
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Arizona State University

Arts Work: Communicating Feelings Through Shape & Color

For Teachers 6th - 8th
A lesson plan to help young scholars understand the use of symbols and images to express their feelings through their artwork. A great lesson plan to boost students' self esteem. Has a link to a site with examples of Kandinsky's work.
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Arizona State University

Arts Work: Communicating Feelings Through Shape & Color

For Teachers 6th - 8th
A lesson plan to help students understand the use of symbols and images to express their feelings through their artwork. A great lesson plan to boost students' self esteem. Has a link to a site with examples of Kandinsky's work.
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SMART Technologies

Smart: Same Different Shape Color Matching

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Students will identify similarities and differences using colors and shapes in this whiteboard lesson provided by SMART.
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Other

Arts Connect Ed Playground Make It

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Eight fun on-line art activities where young artists get to create, color, and design.
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Other

Coloring 3 D Sides

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Students use the colored portion of the 2-D drawings to color the correct face of the 3-D model. This applet consists of 20 problems. [Requires Java.]
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Other

Coloring 2 D Sides

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Learners use the colored portion of the 3-D object to color the correct side of the 2-D drawing. This applet consists of 20 problems. [Requires Java.]
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PBS

Pbs the Shape of Life: Phylum Chordata

For Students 9th - 10th
From a PBS television series, this site offers a summary of the features which characterize the phylum chordata and includes multiple color photos.
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NumberNut

Number Nut: Basic Topics: Shapes, Symbols, and Colors: Colors

For Students 3rd - 8th
A short explanation of how we see color and what each of the primary and secondary colors symbolize.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Sorting Shapes by Color

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Use this flipchart to review sorting of shapes by color.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Sort by Color

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Use this flipchart to review sorting of shapes by color.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Circles and Color

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Identifying shapes and colors of various objects using the Activote student response system.
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PBS

Pbs: Hans Hofmann: Artist: Teacher, Teacher: Artist

For Students 9th - 10th
This companion website for a PBS documentary about Hans Hofmann includes all the essential information about Hofmann, whose reputation as a teacher almost eclipses his reputation as an artist. Wonderful site for exploring how artists...
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University of California

Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive: Cotton Pickers by Romare Bearden

For Students 3rd - 8th
The Berkeley Art Museum publishes an activity based on Romare Bearden's The Cotton Pickers that helps young learners identify the geometric shapes used in the composition. Also discusses the artist's use of color to evoke mood.

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