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Golden Artist Colors: Color Mixing Guide

For Students 9th - 10th
Golden Artist Colors presents a guide to mixing acrylic paint. An explanation of color theory and mixing color with paint is included on this site. There are also color charts and exercises that can be done with paint that explore how...
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Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Color Mixing Activity

For Students 9th - 10th
This program gives students a chance to get a feel for the different colors that can be made by mixing red, green and blue light in different proportions. This activity is meant to be a lead in to students using the color mixing game...
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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.
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PBS

Wgbh: Peep and the Big Wild World: Games: Paint Splat

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Young players will enjoy this cleverly animated color-mixing game that guides them through the process of mixing and matching colors. [All instructions and prompts are voiced, not written, making this an excellent resource for English...
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Exploratorium

Exploratorium: Online Exhibit: Mix and Match

For Students 9th - 10th
A Shockwave movie which allows users to mix varying colors of light and observe the effect upon the appearance of a circle. Accompanied by a "To Do and Notice" section and a "What's Going On?" section. Excellent!
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Color Theory and Mixing: 16 Lessons in Color Theory

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Tooter4kids: Light and Color

For Students Pre-K - 1st
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...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Water Color Mixing

For Teachers K - 1st
In this classroom lab activity, students will experiment with mixing the primary colors together: red, yellow, and blue, to determine what new colors may be observed.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Leo Lionni's a Color of His Own

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students will summarize a Leo Lionni story through drawing and writing. Students will also mix the three primary colors to make secondary colors.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Mn Step: Replicating Colors: Using Tints, Shades and Primary Colors

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
For this activity, students are asked to mix paints that match a muted color they choose, in order to create a formula for the color. Other students then try to recreate their color.
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Unite for Literacy

Unite for Literacy: Create and Play: Squish!

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A book about the primary and secondary colors. Includes audio narration in 16 additional languages with text in English.
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Other

Color Cube: Color Fun

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Six activities sure to engage students of any age! Interactive games and puzzles let you play with color and create your own unique designs!
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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.]
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Watercolor painting.com: Color Theory

For Students 9th - 10th
A great introduction to color theory with colorful illustrations and examples.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Rgb to Hex Conversion

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students practice converting between RGB and hexadecimal (hex) formats. They learn about mixing primary colors in order to get the full spectrum of colors and how to average pixel values.
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University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Color Vision

For Students 9th - 10th
Make a whole rainbow by mixing red, green, and blue light. Change the wavelength of a monochromatic beam or filter white light. View the light as a solid beam, or see the individual photons.
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wikiHow

Wiki How: How to Create Realistic Flesh Tones

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A great formula for getting a Caucasian skin tone by mixing paint colors. Adjustments to the formula will result in other skin tone variations.
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Giraffian Kid's Stuff: Shapes and Colours

For Students Pre-K - K Standards
Students can mix and match shapes and colors in this simple learning activity.
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York University

York University: Color and Color Vision

For Students 9th - 10th
York University provides an index page to several other pages on the topic of color and color vision. The pages are part of an online "book." Many graphics and explanations.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: "Stained Glass Glue"

For Students 9th - 10th
In the activity, "Stained Glass Glue," students use common everyday materials to use inquiry when they mix different substances and observe the unusual result of mixing water colors, milk and common dishwashing detergent.
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Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Color Matching Game

For Students 9th - 10th
This game has been built to show students that they can make any color they want by mixing different amounts of red, blue and green.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Rainbow Milk

For Teachers K - 1st
This activity is designed for learners to learn that primary colors mixed together make secondary colors. They will also experiment with how fat and soap molecules repel each other in water.
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Georgia State University

Georgia State University: Hyper Physics: Characterizing Color

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from Georgia State University discusses the meaning of the terms hue, saturation and brightness. Thorough, meaningful explanations and outstanding graphics.
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Georgia State University

Georgia State University: Hyper Physics: Color Vision Concepts

For Students 9th - 10th
An indexing page from Georgia State University for a variety of other pages associated with color vision. Pages are filled with meaningful graphics and thorough explanations.

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