Lesson Plan
Arizona State University

Arts Work: Communicating Feelings Through Shape & Color

For Teachers 6th - 8th
A lesson plan to help learners understand the use of symbols and images to express their feelings through their artwork. A great lesson plan to boost students' self esteem. Has a link to a site with examples of Kandinsky's work.
Lesson Plan
Arizona State University

Arts Work: Communicating Feelings Through Shape & Color

For Teachers 6th - 8th
A lesson plan to help learners understand the use of symbols and images to express their feelings through their artwork. A great lesson plan to boost students' self esteem. Has a link to a site with examples of Kandinsky's work.
Activity
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Activity 1: Seeing Light and Color

For Students 9th - 10th
This activity focuses on using a box and a ball to experiment with light, shadows, and color. The goals are: Practice looking at light and shadow; Analyze how lighting influences the shape (soft/hard), color (hue) and value...
Activity
Other

Up to Ten: Freestyle Drawing With Shapes and Colors

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Choose a shape, then a color, and draw anything you want.
Interactive
ABCya

Ab Cya: Shapes & Colors Bingo

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This game enables children to practice recognizing shapes and colors in a fun way. All of the shapes listed in the Common Core standards for Kindergarten are included in the game. There are three modes of play: shapes only, colors only...
Lesson Plan
Kinder Art

Kinder Art: Abstract Art: Line, Shape, and Color

For Teachers K - 1st
KinderArt provides an art project idea with the objective of creating an abstract artwork.
Interactive
ABCya

Ab Cya: Same and Different

For Students Pre-K - K
The Same and Different Donut Game is a pre-school activity to practice identifying objects that are the alike and not alike. Kids compare donuts based on shape, color and combinations of shape and color. After all rounds have been...
Activity
University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: What Shape and Color?

For Students 3rd - 8th
Fill in the chart and see which shapes and which colors belong in which rows and columns. The solution is readily available at this one page website.
Whiteboard
SMART Technologies

Smart: Same Different Shape Color Matching

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Students will identify similarities and differences using colors and shapes in this whiteboard lesson provided by SMART.
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Circles and Color

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Identifying shapes and colors of various objects using the Activote student response system.
Activity
Other

Dltk's: Coloring Pages for Kids

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This site provides printable color pages on a vast array of topics including the alphabet, holidays, shapes, countries, etc. It also offers puzzle pages such as color-by-number, connect the dots, and hidden pictures.
Activity
Math Is Fun

Math Is Fun: Shapes Freeplay

For Students 9th - 10th
Play with a variety of shapes: color them, arrange them in patterns, copy them, and learn their names.
Interactive
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Nctm: Illuminations: Isometric Drawing Tool

For Students 9th - 10th
This site includes an interactive math tool to create drawings on isometric dot paper. You can draw figures using edges, faces, or cubes. Rotate and color your drawings, and view them in 3D or 2D.
Interactive
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Nctm: Illuminations: Geometric Solids

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The instructional tool explores various geometric solids and their properties. Student can manipulate and color the different shapes. Learners examine the edges, faces, and vertices of the different solid figures.
Activity
Other

Arts Connect Ed Playground Make It

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Eight fun on-line art activities where young artists get to create, color, and design.
Website
PBS

Pbs the Shape of Life: Phylum Chordata

For Students 9th - 10th
From a PBS television series, this site offers a summary of the features which characterize the phylum chordata and includes multiple color photos.
Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Collecting and Identifying Rocks

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students investigate rocks in an outdoor field trip, and then place them into groups by characteristics. The different groups could be the size, shape, color, and texture of the rocks. After classifying, students are introduced to the...
Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Math + Arts: Geometric Quilts

For Teachers K - 1st
In this lesson, students will create a class quilt of nine patch paper quilt blocks using geometry.
Handout
Missouri Botanical Garden

Missouri Botanical Garden: Autumn Leaf Scrapbook

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learn how to examine a deciduous tree and how to identify the various leaves by their shape and color. There is a guide to leaf terminology with helpful accompanying diagrams.
Interactive
Toy Theater

Toy Theater: Matching

For Students Pre-K - 1st
The user chooses which creatures are the same, either by shape, or by color, or by shape and color.
Interactive
Instituto Latinoamericano de la Comunicacion Educativa

Red Escolar: Un Juego De Figuras

For Students 9th - 10th
In Spanish. This is a game to compare figures according to their size, shapes and color.
Article
Other

Design and Colour

For Students 9th - 10th
A site by watercolor artist John Lovett. He describes the Elements of Art and Principles of Design and gives tips and techniques for watercolor painting and for composition.
Interactive
Vision Learning

Visionlearning: Biology: Galapagos Finches

For Students 9th - 10th
Interactive animation illustrates how Charles Darwin used his study of finch beaks to explain evolution. A phylogenetic tree diagram shows how the birds' color and beak shape changed over generations.
Website
Other

English Guide

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Homepage with links to resources and activities to help support English language learners. Links are organized into vocabulary, listening, grammar and other categories. Some activities are theme-based, focusing on animals, color/shapes,...

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