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.

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...

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.

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

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...

[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...

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Students imagine the possibilities of a purple crayon.

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...

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 instructional activity is on warm and cool colors and works are studied from both Van Gogh and Joan Mitchell. The animation...

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...

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

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...