Curated OER
Light 2: The Lighter Side of Color
Students explore light and color, including how colors are mixed to produce new colors, how light is filtered, and how light is reflected off of surfaces.
Computer Science Unplugged
The Poor Cartographer—Graph Coloring
Color the town red. Demonstrate the concept of graph theory with a task that involves determining the least number of colors needed to color a map so that neighboring countries are not represented by the same color. Pupils make...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Colors All Around: English Language Development Lessons (Theme 2)
A reading of the rhyme "Red Means Stop!" launches a three-week ELD/ESL study of color. The scripted daily lessons contained in the 32-page unit are packed with exercises, activities, and skill builders.
PBS
Color Code
Don't let your brain play tricks on you! Learners test brain reaction rates while it is receiving multiple stimuli. They time each other reading a set of color words written in different colors and again when they are written in black....
Great Books Foundation
Discussion Guide for Jane Eyre
The ambiguity in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre makes the novel a perfect choice for a shared inquiry discussion. Readers respond to open-ended questions with evidence drawn directly from the text.
Anti-Defamation League
Say Something: Discussion Guide for Grades 2-4
Empower pupils to stop bullying when they see or experience it with a lesson that showcases the book, Say Something by Margaret Paula Moss. After reading the tale and thoughtfully discussing its characters, they share their own...
Curated OER
Color
Young scholars study the elements of color in paint and light. In this color science lesson, students discuss colors in their world, white light, and rainbows. Young scholars mix three primary paint colors to make various secondary...
Curated OER
Red: Learning Colors
In this worksheet on the color red, students look at a set of 10 pictures and color red those things that could be red. [All 10 items COULD be the color red]
Curated OER
Toss by Color
Students explore color recognition and demonstrate underhand toss skills. They participate in a game by lining up, and running to and recognizing the color of beanbag the teacher calls out, and toss that color beanbag through a hula-hoop.
Curated OER
Color Scheme Picture Assignment
Students identify, explain and use the basic elements of design. They discover what the seven different color schemes are that are covered in this lesson--monochromatic, analogous, neutral, neutral with an accent, complementary,...
Curated OER
Alternate Theory of Color Perception
Students use the color wheel, matches, masking tape, and slides to view an alternate theory of color perception. In this color perception lesson plan, students discuss the different theories and processors.
Curated OER
Eye Color
Students take a survey on eye color and plot their findings into a graph. In this eye color lesson plan, students take a class survey of everyone's eye color and learn how to put those findings into a graph.
Curated OER
Creative Color Wheel
Students explore graphic design by using color wheels to color images. In this art analysis lesson, students utilize Adobe Photoshop to experiment with coloring old images and removing all color as well. Students self critique their...
Curated OER
Newton's Color Wheels
Students investigate the effects of light while experimenting with several color wheels. They make observations and record them. The information from the observations is used to help fuel the discussion that follows. The lesson includes...
Curated OER
Color Scheme Design
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.
Busy Bee Preschool
Rainbow Fish Craft
Follow your reading of The Rainbow Fish with this adorable printable. Each pupil gets their own fish to color and their own foil scale to affix to the fish.
Curated OER
Jeopardy
The six categories in this Spanish Jeopardy game are Colores, Calendario, Spanish phrases, Spanish-speaking world, and Famous Spanish-speaking people.There are five clues beneath each category. What a great game to review Spanish...
Teach Engineering
DNA Forensics and Color Pigments
Use food coloring in electrophoresis. The last segment in a four-part series mimics DNA fingerprinting by using chromatography. Teams conduct chromatography on food coloring to find colors that use similar pigmentation in their makeup.
Curated OER
Alphabet Coloring Pages
Encourage your class to learn the alphabet with these alphabet coloring pages. Each page includes a large block letter and a drawing of an animal for leaners to color in. To make this a project that your pupils will keep with them for...
Curated OER
Green Zone Common Ground Conversation Starter Worksheets
Finding common ground and building conversation can often prove a difficult task for many. Help learners build this important social skill using this resource, which includes a Venn diagram worksheet and sentence prompts to help students...
Curated OER
Read a Fall Foliage Map
Students examine the purpose of a color key and use a color key to help them read a map.
Curated OER
Things That are Green
Think of all the things that are green! Check out this specially designed resource that shows and reinforces those items. Show your special-needs child any of the nine green images then use the following five pages to prompt them to...
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Things That are Orange
What can you think of that is orange? Bring this word recognition activity to your special education class. Learners can view this resource as many times as necessary to learn about items that are the color orange. They can also build...
Curated OER
Graph Paper Patterns
Young artists divide a piece of graph paper into sections using rectangles, squares, and triangles. They then fill each section with patterns of shape and color. Elementary graders describe how their patterns are organized. Secondary...