Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
Guggenheim Museum: Looking at Art: Art Investigations: Color and Mood
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...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Sorting by Color
Counting bears that are the same size and shape help students focus on just one attribute.
NumberNut
Number Nut: Colors and Shapes
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...
Dartmouth College
Dartmouth College: Mqed: Color Harmonies and Algebra Tiles
The design project examines geometric shapes, color harmonies, and composition. An instructor sheet and student handout are included.
ABCya
Ab Cya: Shapes & Colors Bingo
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...
Other
Up to Ten: Freestyle Drawing With Shapes and Colors
Choose a shape, then a color, and draw anything you want.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Activity 1: Seeing Light and Color
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...
SMART Technologies
Smart: Same Different Shape Color Matching
Students will identify similarities and differences using colors and shapes in this whiteboard lesson provided by SMART.
Arizona State University
Arts Work: Communicating Feelings Through Shape & Color
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.
Arizona State University
Arts Work: Communicating Feelings Through Shape & Color
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.
Other
Dltk's: Coloring Pages for Kids
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.
Society for Science and the Public
Science News for Students: Color Changing Robot
Scientists at Harvard University recently invented a robot shaped like the letter "X" that can change its color to blend in with its surroundings. While this robot is currently limited to operating within a laboratory, it could...
Math Is Fun
Math Is Fun: Shapes Freeplay
Play with a variety of shapes: color them, arrange them in patterns, copy them, and learn their names.
NumberNut
Number Nut: Basic Topics: Shapes, Symbols, and Colors: Colors
A short explanation of how we see color and what each of the primary and secondary colors symbolize.
Department of Defense
Do Dea: Spreadsheet Software: M3: L3: Can You Draw It? Working With Shapes
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.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Sorting Shapes by Color
[Free Registration/Login Required] Use this flipchart to review sorting of shapes by color.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Sort by Color
[Free Registration/Login Required] Use this flipchart to review sorting of shapes by color.
Other
Kinderweb: Educational Children's Games
Use this site to practice identifying shapes, colors, and animals with these interactive games.
White House Historical Association
White House Historical Association: Colors and Shapes of the White House
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.
Other
University of Bristol, Uk: Minerals Under the Microscope
In this geology course, students learn about the use of the polarizing microscope, the primary tool for examining the structure of mineral samples such as cleavage, density, fracture, color, and the like.
University of California
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive: Cotton Pickers by Romare Bearden
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.
Other
Arts Connect Ed Playground Make It
Eight fun on-line art activities where young artists get to create, color, and design.
Other
Coloring 3 D Sides
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.]
Other
Coloring 2 D Sides
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.]