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.

An interactive site that explores the elements and principles of visual art through the artist's toolkit. This lesson is from the artist's encyclopedia entry for color and includes information on the color wheel, value, mood, natural...

An interactive site that explores the elements and principles of visual art through the artist's toolkit. This instructional activity is on the color wheel and it studies both primary and secondary colors using Grace Hartigan's...

Basic color theory introduced in a creative way. Students gain understanding of warm and cool colors as they each choose a palette and paint a sun or a moon.

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...

Students imagine the possibilities of a purple crayon.

Lesson plan that investigates the sense of sight. Includes optical illusions which lead students to question the reliability of vision.