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Read Works

Read Works: Mix the Old With the New

For Teachers 7th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about how cooking causes changes in matter. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Color Mixing

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is an elementary primer to mixing colors in art and is a great resource for beginning artists with activity pages for kids to demonstrate their understanding of primary and secondary colors.
Lesson Plan
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)

Smile: Mixing Colors With Light Beams

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
For this activity students learn how to mix different colors of light to create different colors.
Activity
University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: Three Way Mix Up

For Students 3rd - 8th
Follow the rules and see if you can solve this problem about 3 different color tile arrangements. As always the solutions is available on this one page website.
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Tints and Shades

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
In this activity, students solve a problem involving mixing of paint colors. They use color charts to determine the fractional parts and percentages of colors needed to create tints and shades. [Requires Adobe Reader.]
Activity
Exploratorium

Exploratorium: Science Snacks: The Three Little Pigments

For Students 9th - 10th
For this activity, you print different colors of the same image onto acetate, then explore the different color effects you get when they are overlaid on each other in various combinations.
Lesson Plan
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)

Smile: Mixing Primary Colors

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Primary elementary lesson plan about primary colors. One rainbow activity and one blending activity.
Interactive
Florida State University

Florida State University: Molecular Expressions: Primary Subtractive Colors

For Students 9th - 10th
Manipulate "pigmented" color discs to see how mixing subtractive colors affect the overall color.
Interactive
University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Concentration

For Students 9th - 10th
Watch your solution change color as you mix chemicals with water. Then check molarity with the concentration meter. What are all the ways you can change the concentration of your solution? Switch solutes to compare different chemicals...
Unit Plan
NASA

Nasa: The Space Place: Why Is the Sky Blue?

For Students 5th - 8th
Learn about colors of light by exploring how prisms work. Discover the different colors of the spectrum and how the visible light is what we see.
Lesson Plan
ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Monet's Magic [Pdf]

For Teachers 4th
In this lesson, 4th graders will learn about the impressionistic painter, Claude Monet. Students will learn how to paint fuzzy (up and down strokes) while mixing tints, creating the illusion of water. They will also learn to do color...
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Leo Lionni's Little Blue and Little Yellow

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students will use Leo Lionni's literature and his website to learn about the author, mix primary colors, summarize and rewrite a story, and use graphing skills to determine the classes' favorite color.
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Marilyn J. Brackney

Imagination Factory: Paint a Wet Into Wet Watercolor

For Teachers 9th - 10th
"Wet-into-wet" painting is an interesting painting technique described in this website. Included are example images and "Tips and Tricks" for creating your masterpiece.

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