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Handprint: An Artist's Color Theory

For Students 9th - 10th
An incredibly extensive, but somewhat idiosyncratic, explanation of color theories.
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Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Hhmi: Bio Interactive: How We Get Our Skin Color Interactive

For Students 9th - 10th
This is an interactive video that describes the factors that affect our skin color. There are five points in the video where students can pause the video to learn further information about the concepts discussed. [3:32]
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Cambridge University: Color Perception Tutorial

For Students 9th - 10th
This helpful tutorial on color perception is divided into sections including our eyes and vision, additive and subtractive color mixing, hue and saturation, and color properties.
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Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation

Guggenheim Museum: Looking at Art: Art Investigations: Color and Mood

For Students 3rd - 8th
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...
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Cambridge University: Color Management Tutorial

For Students 9th - 10th
This tutorial on color management reviews the need for reference colors in digital photography and provides an overview of color management.
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Cape Coloreds

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides an overview of the traditional culture and lifestyle of the Cape Coloreds of South Africa. Gives basic facts about location, language, folklore, foods, social customs, family life, education, religion, pastimes, societal...
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American Geosciences Institute

American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Exploring Color Maps

For Teachers 9th - 10th
An activity where students study the Ozone Hole poster used that brings together colorful images of over 30 years of satellite observations of the ozone hole. Students interpret the color on the globes to see how the ozone hole has...
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: The Science of Skin Color

For Students 9th - 10th
Angela Koine Flynn describes the science of skin color. [4:53]
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Exploratorium

Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Colored Shadows

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about additive mixtures in this activity. Understand how your rods and cones work together to see color.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: What Is Color?

For Students 9th - 10th
Colm Kelleher describes the physics behind colors- why the colors we see are related to the period of motion and the frequency of waves. [3:09]
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Woodland Indian Educational Programs: Coloring Pages

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A collection of coloring pages depicting various Woodland native peoples in their daily lives growing and gathering food, building shelter, etc. Good illustrations of their clothing as well.
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DOGO Media

Dogo News: Celebrate Holi the Original Color Run

For Students 5th - 8th
Learn about the Hindu holiday of Holi that is celebrated in India. Includes video.
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Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Coloring Multiples in Pascal's Triangle

For Students 9th - 10th
In this activity, the student can visually identify number patterns in Pascal's triangle by coloring multiples of a given number.
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abcteach

Abcteach: Coloring Pages

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] Generate 3 blackline pages of a bear, a butterfly and a turkey to color with the instructions and color key in Spanish. These can be used to teach Spanish, or with your ELL students.
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: L2: Chopin, Realism, Local Color in Late 19th Century America

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson plan, students will consider Lesson 2: Kate Chopin's The Awakening: Chopin, Realism, and Local Color in late 19th Century America. Worksheets and other supporting materials can be found under the Resources tab.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Connotation, Character, and Color Imagery in "The Great Gatsby"

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Contains plans for lessons that examine the use of color in "The Great Gatsby." After studying the book, students write character analysis papers discussing the colors associated with the characters. In addition to objectives and...
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Huntington Library

Huntington Library: Learning From Leaves: A Look at Leaf Color [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Lesson plan that takes students through an experiment to test the effects of light levels and temperature on the color of leaves.
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Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Light Waves/color: Visible Light and the Eye's Response

For Students 9th - 10th
Students learn how the eye responds to visible light, and how that function ultimately allows us to see.
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Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Light Waves and Color: Thin Film Interference

For Students 9th - 10th
Students investigate an example of interference that provides further evidence in support of the wavelike behavior of light.
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Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Light Waves/ Color: Other Two Point Source Interference

For Students 9th - 10th
Where can we experience the phenomenon that light taking two paths from two locations to the same point in space can undergo constructive and destructive interference? There are several answers to these questions and they will be...
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History Miami: Miami: One Hundred Years of History

For Students 9th - 10th
An excellent discussion of Miami's colorful history from pre-European days up to modern times. Covers topics such as the Seminole Wars, the birth of Miami, the Everglades drainage project, Colored Town, the land boom, the Great...
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Biology Corner

Biology Corner: Anatomy: Urinary System: Structure of the Nephron

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students read text and color leach labeled part of the nephron in the human kidney to understand the structure and function of the kidney. This is a ready-to-use teacher resource for biology review.
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Department of Defense

Do Dea: Web Design: Module 7: Web Development

For Students 9th - 10th
In Module 7 of this course on web design, students learn how to use CSS style rules to create the page layout, color scheme, and typography for a web site's design. From this, they learn how to create a template that can be used over and...
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Davidson College

Davidson College: Electronic Structure of Coordination Compounds

For Students 9th - 10th
A list of five virtual chemistry topics with Java applets on the electronic structure of coordination compounds. Covers crystal field theory, CFT energy level splitting, color in gems, the spectrochemical series, and ligand properties.

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