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Fed Stats: Mapstats for Kids Color Scheme
Mapstats is a unique cross-curricular site that uses maps to teach about monochromatic color.
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Arts Connect Ed Artist's Toolkit: Primary and Secondary
An interactive site that explores the elements and principles of visual art through the artist's toolkit. This lesson is on the color wheel and it studies both primary and secondary colors using Grace Hartigan's "Billboard." The...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Project Ideas: How Primary Colors Combine to Make New Colors
In this science fair project, paint color pie slices onto a wheel and spin the wheel on an electric drill. See how colors add together to make new colors. The Science Buddies project ideas are set up consistently beginning with an...
Curated OER
A Color Wheel.
A quick review of the color wheel and some tips on how to mix colors with paint.
Science Struck
Science Struck: Visible Color Spectrum Wheel
A brief explanation of the visible color wheel.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: A Word Game for Kids: The Colored Wheels Game
What kind of interesting things could happen to a vehicle that's an unusual color? In this student-created lesson, young writers click the color and the wheel button until they find a colored vehicle they want to write about. Then they...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Color Theory
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart introduces students to the concept of primary, secondary and tertiary colors. The lesson concludes with an activity in which students create their own color wheel from mixing colors and...
Other
Art Quizz: Color (1)
A quiz on color complements and basic facts about color. Click back to home to access the French- or Spanish-language version of the site.
wikiHow
Wiki How: How to Mix Colors Properly
A quick review of the color wheel and some tips on how to mix colors with paint.
Curated OER
The Colour Wheel
A review of terms associated with the study of color as an element of art: spectrum, hue, color wheel, primary colors, secondary colors, tertiary colors, complementary colors, and analogous colors.
Department of Defense
Do Dea: Art Appreciation: Unit 3: Technical Aspects of Art
In this third unit of a course on Art Appreciation, students learn how to describe the technical aspects of an artist's work by discussing elements of art and principles of design. They also look at the stylistic qualities of an artist's...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Know Your Colors
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is designed to help students learn their colors. There are games and activities where students will be involved in using the ACTIVboard to learn their colors. An Activote quiz is included...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Investigating White Light: What Colors Make Up White Light?
Two different hands-on activities that explore white light and the colors that make it up. In one activity students will create white light by using a color wheel. In the other activity students discover the colors that make white light...
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Arts Connect Ed Artist's Toolkit: Warm and Cool Colors
An interactive site that explores the elements and principles of visual art through the artist's toolkit. This lesson is on warm and cool colors and works are studied from both Van Gogh and Joan Mitchell. The animation shows the...
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)
Smile: Reliability of Your Visual Sense
Lesson plan that investigates the sense of sight. Includes optical illusions which lead students to question the reliability of vision.
Other
Learn Pysanky: Symbols
A collection of design motifs used in the art of pysanky, or Ukrainian egg decoration. Each symbol is accompanied by its meaning. A color wheel is also shown, with the meanings for each color when used in pysanky.
Mathigon
Mathigon: Probability and Discrete Math: Casino Mathematics
This lesson focuses on the probability and casino games such as Roulette which consists of a wheel with the numbers from 1 to 36 colored in red and black, as well as a green 0. A ball rolls around the outside and randomly lands on one of...