The Tech Interactive
Make a Splash With Color
The companion website for an exhibit housed at the Tech Museum of Innovation, in San Jose. The exhibit explores and explains how our eyes see color, the words we use to describe colors, and how the eye works.
Quia
Quia: Color Theory
Four activities quizzing vocabulary terms about the usage of color in art. Matching, concentration, flashcards, and a word search are available. Teachers can use these to supplement their lessons, or to help students review for a test.
Charlotte Mecklenburg Library
Story Place Pre School Library: What Color Is It?
Students' are interactively presented with various objects and asked what color the objects are. Students' click on the correct color.
abcteach
Abcteach: Color Flash Cards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Help your students learn colors with printable color or blackline flash cards. Bright color pictures go with each color name. Sample sight word nouns with picture flash cards are also printable....
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: Make Up Your Mind: The Stroop Effect
Describe how the Stroop Effect influences the brain's ability to simultaneously process conflicting information. Conduct a test where subjects are required to identify the font color of words that name a different color (the word "red"...
BusinessSpanish.com
Business spanish.com: Colors/colores
From primary to secondary, this site has great colors that are translated from Spanish to English. You can also hear the pronunciation by clicking on the color you want to hear. Bilingual.
Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
Wisconsin Dept. Of Natural Res.: Leaves Changing Color
Scroll below the Fall Color Report on this site for information from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources that easily explains why and how leaves change color and why they fall. There are colorful illustrations and appropriate...
Project Britain
Primary Homework Help: Color Investigation Puzzle
Try making words on the screen disappear by changing the background color of this page. Add or subtract red, green, or blue, and see how light is made up of many different colors.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Warped Words and the Stroop Effect
The Stroop effect describes an experiment about the time it takes to name the color of printed words. When you try to name the color in which color words are printed, it takes longer when the color word differs from the ink color than...
Roy the Zebra
Roy the Zebra: Reading Games: High Frequency Words: Tom's Color Game
Help Tom the zebra get ready for bed in this interactive game. Drag each color word next to the box with the matching color and give Tom one item he needs for bedtime. After giving him socks, a blanket, hay, and a glass of water, watch...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: A Word Game for Kids: The Color Game for Kids
In this game, young writers select three colors by clicking the color buttons until they find a combination they want to write about. Then they let the carefully-chosen colors inspire an original story.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Color Personification Poems
For this lesson, Hailstones and Halibut Bones, a book written by Mary O'Neill and Red Sings, and From Treetops: a Year in Colors, a book by Joyce Sidman, are used as mentor texts. Students will brainstorm to collect different adjectives,...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: The Color of Love: Reflecting on Colors and the Images They Evoke
In this lesson plan young scholars will create a poem based on the images evoked by certain colors.
Starfall
Starfall: Peg the Hen (Short E Listening Practice)
English language learners and beginning readers can listen as they read this wonderfully animated story about Peg the Hen. Excellent drill for learning to pronounce the short E sound with excellent reinforcement of basic vocabulary...
Palomar Community College District
Wayne's Word: Transposons and Jumping Genes
The author uses playing cards to provide a useful explanation of 'jumping genes'.
Other
Tennessee State University: The Study Skills Help Page
The Study Skills Help Page provides learning strategies for success. Explore the learning tools and tips that you can use to become a more skilled learner.
Open Curriculum
Open Curriculum: Timbre: The Color of Music
To provide an introduction to the concept of timbre and words used to describe
Other
Saint Ambrose Barlow: Background Color: Missing Sounds, Year 1 Term2
Given a picture and word with missing letters, students determine what vowel sound is missing and type the word spelled correctly into the box provided.
Quia
Quia: Los Colores Matching
Match the color with the Spanish word in this interactive matching game. Good for review and for learning Spanish colors for the first time.
PBS
Pbs Kids: Word Girl: Heroes & Villains: "Violet"
Learn about Violet, an artistic genius and Becky's best friend, who has a unique perspective of the world. Links are provided to her color page, bookmark, and game.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Writing Word Equations
The students will learn to write word and formula equations. We will watch a web video about chemical equations. We will then complete the science in motion lab "The Color of Chemistry". The students will also be required to write word...
Other
Boggle's World Esl: Word Searches
A collection of more than 40 printable word search activities designed for ESL students. Searches are organized by level of difficulty (easy, intermediate to difficult) and cover a wide variety of themes, e.g., colors, verbs, the five...
TESL Journal
Activities for Esl Students: Colors: Sentence Completion
At this site complete ten sentences with the appropriate color. Context gives clues about the correct color. Designed for ESL students.