Curated OER
Color Mixing/ Fantastic Shapes in Paining
Learners paint shapes in pictures using all of the colors in the color wheel. In this colors lesson plan, students learn about primary and secondary colors, and create non representational art with the colors.
Curated OER
Weaving a Watercolor
Students examine the color wheel and work with watercolors. For this color lesson, students go over primary, secondary, and intermediate colors before watching a demonstration of watercolor brush techniques. They choose a shape to paint...
Oglebay Institute
Post-Impressionism: Pointillism
How can little dots in two colors make a third color? Experiment with pointillism and color mixing with a series of activities. After viewing paintings by Seurat and watching a teacher demonstration, pupils create samples of three...
Curated OER
Spinners of Color
Students review primary, secondary, and intermediate colors. They use a worksheet to select the combination of colors they want to try on the spinners. They predict the outcome of the spinning colors.
Curated OER
Communicating Color
Young scholars identify basic colors by their proper names. They explain the process of creating the color wheel and explore the origins and catagories of complex colors.
K12 Reader
Color Shows Mood
Colors, primary colors, secondary colors, neutral colors, mixing colors, the color wheel. As a reading comprehension exercise, kids read a short passage about colors and then answer a series of questions based on the article.
Curated OER
Element of Color
Students develop their own original color by using only primary colors, black and white. As a class, they review the warm, cool, secondary and tertiary colors. To end the lesson, they examine the effect of different colors on the human...
Curated OER
Practice Idioms in English!
In this idioms activity, students fill in the blanks with the correct verbs, nouns, colors, and more to make idioms. Students complete 30 problems total.
Curated OER
Colorful Idioms
In this recognizing meanings of idioms in sentences online/interactive worksheet, students use context clues to determine the correct color words to complete the sentences. Students choose 11 multiple choice answers.
The Art Of Education University
12 Hue Color Wheel
How do primary colors mix to create secondary colors? Young artists find out in this hands-on activity as they trace a template, paint in the primary colors, mix secondary colors, label, and cut out four separate color wheels.
Curated OER
Color My World Grey and Blue
Can colors help to convey a mood in writing? Explore this question with your class using the songs "Grey Street" by the Dave Matthews Band and "Blu is a Mood" by Blu Cantrell. After analyzing the effect of the color words in these songs...
Curated OER
Color Your World with Changes --- the Camouflage Game
Seventh graders, after predicting dominant colors foud in their habitat or garden, visit heir area on a monthly basis. They search for colored toothpicks, then graph the results, determining the dominant color for the month.
Curated OER
Clothing Color Wheel
Students are introduced to the primary, secondary and tertiary colors. Individually, they are to create a color wheel with all three levels of colors in a creative way. To end the lesson plan, they present their wheel to the class and...
Curated OER
Introductory Activity for Color Unit: Edible Color Wheel
Pupils use food coloring and frosting to make an edible color wheel. They identify the primary colors and experiment with mixing colored frosting to produce the secondary colors. Students then eat their color wheel.
Curated OER
Intermediate Sentence Completion Exercise 8
For this online interactive grammar skills worksheet, students examine 10 sentences that are missing words and select the appropriate words to complete each of the sentences and match them to the sentences. Student answers are...
Curated OER
Painting a Color Wheel
You have to love the color wheel, it's just so colorful! Your kids will love it too, as they work through an introductory exercise which allows them the opportunity to draw and paint a color wheel of their own. This wheel focuses on...
Curated OER
Multicultural Literature Lesson Plan The Lotus Seed by Sherry Garland
Sixth graders begin reading "The Lotus Seed" before determining a plant that is a representative of their country or region. They illustrate the plant and write sentences about it and locate the region on a map. Finally, they make a...
Curated OER
Who Am I? (Intermediate Grades)
Young scholars write "Guess Who?" poems in a descriptive manner. They listen to the poems as they are read aloud and try to guess who the poem belongs to.
Curated OER
Colorful Milk of Magnesia
Students explore acids, bases, and indicators. They observe the various colors of an acid-base indicator solution and the neutralization of an acidic solution by an antacid.
Curated OER
Exploring Color Vocabulary
Students explore color terms and related meanings and metaphors in cultural and literary contexts. They use the main colors to explore synonymous color terms and related metaphorical meanings of color words. Students recognize the...
Curated OER
Find the Frog
Pupils, the advanced beginner to intermediate ESL level, use English in a science activity.
Curated OER
Instructors Lesson Plan for Cats in Quilts
Students make quilts using a simplified applique technique. The lesson plan includes directions for beginner as well as intermediate levels. Each class lasts from between two and three hours.
Curated OER
A logical-mathematical look at a painting
Learners view classical paintings. In this analyzing lesson, students view a Powerpoint of classical paintings and discuss the emotion, colors, and objects they see within the painting. Learners list questions they would ask the artist...
Curated OER
Clue In On Color
Students consider the effects of color on moods and feelings. They participate in a variety of demonstrations to explore the role of illusion and suggestion in human perception. They consider which color best represents their personality.