Learn about the different types of color blindness and see a few simple tests that are used to diagnose this condition.

This site discusses color and how it works in art, science, and the mind. Explore the many ways that color affects us.

Contains information on value, contrast, gradation, and the values of hues of colors. Has great color charts and links to related sites.

Complete site on using color in art. Includes the history of color, psychology of color, color perspective, and how color changes depending on the medium used. Includes activities to help understand how to use color in your art.

You'll find a wealth of resources at this site dedicated to color! Easy-to-read discussions can be found on topics ranging from the science of light to complementary colors and the color wheel. All special terms are highlighted and...

Six activities sure to engage students of any age! Interactive games and puzzles let you play with color and create your own unique designs!

This site was created by an art teacher and has several fun lesson plans that could be adapted to different grade levels. The activities are about color wheels, color theory, tints and shades, and several other subjects.

Why are things colored? This site explores the 15 phenomena that create our colorful world. Learn how light is made, lost, and moved!

This online exhibit demonstrates how human vision works and has influenced Western art. It combines the biology of vision and art history. The exhibit focuses on the eye and its response to color and contrast while highlighting several...

Students are presented with a challenge question concerning color blindness and asked to use engineering principles to design devices to help people who are color blind. Using the legacy cycle as a model, this unit is comprised of five...

A high-level scientific explanation of the way the eye senses light and sees images and color. Excellent graphics help you visualize complex workings of the human eye.

Download this Educators Guide to light, color, and their uses. Choose from different activities using lenses, prisms, hidden messages, periscopes, and kaleidoscopes

Download this Educators Guide to light, color, and their uses. Choose from different activities using lenses, prisms, hidden messages, periscopes, and kaleidoscopes

Create your own coloring pages by selecting from the characters provided, pick a color to start, and use the eraser if you want to change it. Have fun coloring!

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.

In this instructional activity, students play a guessing game to explore different fruits and vegetables, emphasizing the diversity of colorful foods available for them to eat. Students prepare and eat a colorful, plant-based salad and...

A fact sheet about the straw-colored fruit bat. The facts include a physical description, where they can be found, what they eat, and their reproduction habits. Also included are facts about special adaptations that the fruit bat has.

See color photographs from Life Magazine of Allied troops traveling through Italy towards Rome in the Italian campaign near the end of World War II. Many of these photographs were not published in the magazine at the time. Each photo has...

Color photographs of men and women working in factories building planes and readying materiel for use in World War II. Captions explain the context of the photographs and the sources.

The U.S Fish and Wildlife Service presents The Endangered Species Coloring Book. A PDF file filled with pictures and descriptions of eight endangered plant and animals.

In an continuing overview of color and color theory, this site focuses on color shade and tints with examples ranging from moderately-high contrast, medium value to high contrast, light value.

A great introduction to color theory with colorful illustrations and examples.

This 6-question quiz/practice focuses on the RBG color cube. We can represent all visible colors on a cube, where red increases along the x axis, green along the y axis and blue along the z.

Younger students can learn how to color within the lines using these printouts inspired by their favorite PBS shows. There are also games, too, such as connect-the-dots.