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Color Wheels and Schemes

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore how to use the color wheel in selecting fabric colors for a quilt. They define and demonstrate monochromatic, complimentary, and analogous color schemes. Lesson plan and worksheets are attached in .pdf and .doc formats.
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Colorful Colorado

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students investigate the components of white light as viewed through a prism. The multiple colors of the spectrum produced are related to wavelengths and experienced through the creation of a color wheel.
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Spinning Color Wheels

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Learners are introduced to primary and secondary colors. Using cardboard, they make a wheel in which they divide into different pie sections to color with primary and secondary colors. To end the lesson, they spend time mixing two colors...
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Season Tiles: Ceramics Lesson

For Teachers K - 3rd
Each color holds its own feeling and these feelings are used to describe the four seasons. Youngsters create a color palate based on the four seasons, assigning various colors to each season. They each create four clay tiles, painting...
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Color

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students study the elements of color in paint and light. In this color science lesson, students discuss colors in their world, white light, and rainbows. Students mix three primary paint colors to make various secondary colors. Students...
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Clothing Color Wheel

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars are introduced to the primary, secondary and tertiary colors. Individually, they place the colors into the correct sequence and create their own color wheel. To end the lesson, they share their color wheel with the class...
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Color Wheel Project

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners review the relationship between primary and secondary colors. As a class, they are introduced to the tertiary colors and use photographs to show them in a room design. To end the lesson, they create a new color wheel with...
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Color Wheel Introduction

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners are introduced to the primary and secondary colors. Using a worksheet, they follow the directions from their teacher to complete the activity. To end the lesson, they use the worksheet to create a separate color wheel.
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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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Color - Interior Design

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students review the principle elements of design along with the sequence of colors on the color wheel. In groups, they assign a feeling or mood to each color and share it with the class. To end the instructional activity, they use the...
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Clothing Color Wheel -- Lesson 2

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers 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, 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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Color Selection for a Quilt

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students discuss the importance of using the proper color combinations in a quilt. In groups, they use the color wheel to design their section of the quilt for the class. To end the lesson, they are introduced to the various types of...
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Mixing Colors with "Little Blue and Little Yellow"

For Teachers K - 1st
Learners mix colors to make new colors. In this color mixing lesson, students listen to Leo Lionni's Petit Bleu et Petit Jaune, before retelling the beginning, middle, and end of the story. They watch as the teacher mixes food coloring...
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Light

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students explore light.  In this light wave physics lesson, students construct periscopes, kaleidoscopes, color wheels, and pinhole cameras.  Students observe and record characteristics of light demonstrated through the use of...
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Mixing Up Magic

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students explore the relationship between art and science through experimenting with color, design and recycled materials and creating their own art work.
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The Color of Your Own

For Teachers K - 1st
Students understand primary and secondary colors. In this lesson plan about colors, students explore where colors come from. Students paint a picture with the primary paint colors that the teacher has created. Students mix the primary...
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Color Theory & Using Layers

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Young scholars practice layering colors while creating three distinct backgrounds using the educational software TealPaint in this High School Art and Technology lesson. A slideshow, a quiz, and a color PowerPoint Slide show are included.
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Andy Warhol Animals

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Learners view and identify the colors on the color wheel. After viewing a PowerPoint, they discuss the reasons why animals become endangered. They examine the life and works of Andy Warhol and review contour drawing. To end the...
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Mixing Primary and Secondary Colors

For Teachers K - 6th
Young scholars create their own color wheel by mixing colors of Playdoh. Each child names the primary and secondary colors.
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Color Mixing

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students distinguish and recognize the three primary colors used in color printing. In this color mixing lesson, students predict what color will be produced when pigments or color beams are mixed. Students will demonstrate an...
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Primary Color Mixing

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders identify secondary colors that are created by mixing primary color paint combinations, and make paintings of their own.
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Spicy Hot Colors

For Teachers 1st
First graders discover the importance of primary colors by reading a book in class.  In this art lesson, 1st graders read the book Spicy Hot Colors, and discuss the three primary colors and the numerous combinations they can make....
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The Magic School Bus Makes a Rainbow

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students learn along with Ms. Frizzle's class. In this Magic School Bus lesson plan, students spin separate colors into a new color just as the Magic School Bus kids did.

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