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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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Other

Color Theory: Lesson Plans

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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.
Website
Cornell University

Cornell University: Art, Design, and Visual Thinking: Color, Value, and Hue

For Students 9th - 10th
Contains information on value, contrast, gradation, and the values of hues of colors. Has great color charts and links to related sites.
Website
Other

Color Matters: Color and Design

For Students 9th - 10th
This site discusses color and how it works in art, science, and the mind. Explore the many ways that color affects us.
Lesson Plan
Minneapolis Institute of Arts

Arts Connect Ed Artist's Toolkit Encyclopedia: Color

For Students 3rd - 8th
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,...
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Other

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.
Interactive
Crickweb

Crickweb: Literacy: Color Labeling

For Students Pre-K - 1st
The interactive learning activity explores the names of colors. Students drag and drop the names of the color on the picture of the color.
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Other

Color Worqx: Complementary Colors

For Students 9th - 10th
After providing an overview of color theory and the color wheel, this site focuses on complementary colors and perceptual opposites. Various examples of complementary colors are also provided.
Lesson Plan
Minneapolis Institute of Arts

Arts Connect Ed Artist's Toolkit: Primary and Secondary

For Students 3rd - 8th
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...
Graphic
Curated OER

A Color Wheel.

For Students 9th - 10th
A quick review of the color wheel and some tips on how to mix colors with paint.
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Color Theory

For Teachers 6th - 8th
[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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Other

Art Quizz: Color (1)

For Students 9th - 10th
A quiz on color complements and basic facts about color. Click back to home to access the French- or Spanish-language version of the site.
Graphic
Curated OER

The Colour Wheel

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A review of terms associated with the study of color as an element of art: spectrum, hue, color wheel, primary colors, secondary colors, tertiary colors, complementary colors, and analogous colors.
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Know Your Colors

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is designed to help students learn their colors. There are games and activities where students will be involved in using the ACTIVboard to learn their colors. An Activote quiz is included...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigating White Light: What Colors Make Up White Light?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
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...
Lesson Plan
Minneapolis Institute of Arts

Arts Connect Ed Artist's Toolkit: Warm and Cool Colors

For Students 3rd - 8th
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...
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Learn Pysanky: Symbols

For Students 3rd - 8th
A collection of design motifs used in the art of pysanky, or Ukrainian egg decoration. Each symbol is accompanied by its meaning. A color wheel is also shown, with the meanings for each color when used in pysanky.