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Lesson Plan
Art Institute of Chicago

Color Combinations

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Explore color through an examination of pointillism and light. Class members view Georges Seraut's famous painting on a computer, zooming in and out to see the details and effects of the technique. They then cover how light and color are...
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Curated OER

Vasarely Was A Colorful Fellow

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders create artwork inspired by the work of Victor Vasarely. In this op art lesson, 8th graders explore color theory and color mixing. Students create ten shapes to use in their artwork and over the course of two weeks,...
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Unit Plan
American Institute of Architects

Architecture: It's Elementary!—First Grade

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Build an interest and appreciation for architecture in your young learners with this fun 10-lesson art unit. Engaging children in using their five senses, the class first observes the environment around them, paying special attention to...
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Curated OER

Color Scheme Design

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students create a work of art using specific color scheme guidelines studied previously. State standards for the arts are addressed in this six day instructional activity for the high school art class.
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Curated OER

Color Combinations

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Pupils develop a basic understanding of how color is perceived by the eye. They utilize the technique Seurat used to paint A Sunday on La Grande Jatte to create their own paintings.
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Curated OER

Is Your Blue Really Blue? [Metamerism]

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students learn fundamentals about color perception, and explain the phenomenon called "metamerism". Students learn the three basic components of color perception: light source, illuminated colored object, and the light detector.
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Curated OER

Is Your Blue Really Blue? [Metamerism]

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students examine color perception and how it relates to metamerism.  In this color lesson students complete a lab activity that shows them the three basic components of color perception. 
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Curated OER

A World Without Color And A World With Color

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders create black and white pictures followed by a re-creation of the same picture using color with an emphasis on contrast, depth, and mood.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Cut and Paste Balloons

For Students Pre-K - K Standards
In this color recognition worksheet, students color the three different balloons by the colors red, yellow, and blue. Students cut the circles out and paste them into the picture.
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Curated OER

A World without Color and a World with Color

For Teachers All
Visual arts instructional activity involving the creation of a black and white picture followed by a re-creation of the same picture using color with an emphasis on contrast, depth, and mood.
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Curated OER

How Do you Feel?

For Teachers K - 6th
Learners 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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Curated OER

Activity #7 Apple Color Change

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Young scholars compare the different rates of reaction between an apple covered with vitamin C and an apple with no vitamin C. They compare the different rates of reaction between an apple placed in the sun and one not exposed to the...
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Channel Islands Film

Dark Water: Lesson Plan 2 - Grade 3

For Teachers 3rd Standards
A discussion of bioluminescence launches an investigation of animal adaptations. After re-watching the opening minutes of Dark Water, class members listen to a reading of What Do You Do with a Tail Like This, and then create a new animal...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Recognizing Numbers Worksheet 2

For Students K - 1st
In this number recognition learning exercise, students study the various numbers and letters on the learning exercise. Students color the number only.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

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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Curated OER

EXPRESSIONIST ART LESSON

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders design and compose a picture that conveys a specific emotion or feeling, and recognize the use of emotion in a variety of artworks using crayons and/or pastels. They experiment and manipulate elements of art including, line...
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Worksheet
T. Smith Publishing

The Same Size at the Beach

For Students K - 1st Standards
Rows of Nautilus shells, beach balls, sand pails, and sea gulls array this handout. Kindergartners compare the relative sizes in each row and simply color any that are the same size. This page would make terrific take-home practice for...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Lesson: Mathias Poledna: Crystal Palace

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Film analysis takes critical thinking, connections, and context. Upper graders look at the film installation, Crystal Palace in terms of the film makers choices, presentation, and perspective of truth. After an analytical discussion of...
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Curated OER

Primary & Secondary Colors

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Pupils gain the knowledge of how to create color/s. This is relevant in their lives as they will forever be exposed to color and learning to identify how color is created.
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Curated OER

Tessellation Design And Construction

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students study the basic elements and concepts of the visual art's perceptual component - such as shape, line and color. They create tessellations that foster problem solving and reflective thinking.
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Curated OER

TISSUE PAINTING

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners designs a unique tissue painting by filling in the sketch with selected colored tissue paper and its placement.
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Curated OER

Now I See You... The Changing Perception of Women

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine the changing view of women during the 20th century. Using art, literature and music, they identify the various perceptions used throughout history. They also predict what women's' perceptions are going to be in the next...
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Curated OER

MOSAICS

For Teachers All
Visual arts lesson plan emphasizing pattern and design in individual student mosaics made with paper and reviewing line, shape, space, and color. The individual mosaics will be used to create a border for a group mosaic in another lesson...
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Curated OER

Design Motifs and Eggs

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students create an Easter egg that displays at least one secondary color, one primary color, and one motif of design.