The Color Wheel

This isn't your normal color wheel. In the lesson, future computer scientists learn about additive and subtractive colors and their uses. They learn how hexadecimal and binary numbers are used to describe colors.

What does it take to prepare for a construction project? In an engineering lesson plan, youngsters examine how a Ferris wheel can turn and carry a load without falling apart. After reading up on big wheel designs, they create a model...

Think it's possible to make a wheel out of triangles? According to this geometry project it is. Using their knowledge of the Pythagorean Theorem, young mathematicians carefully calculate and draw a series of right triangles that form...

Spin the wheel of the fraction contraption and learn about equivalent fractions! After constructing their own spinners, kids use printable pizzas to represent fractions that are equal in value.

Students are given bags of skittles. They put the candy in rainbow order (ROYGBV). They then draw a circle using a compass and use a ruler to cut the circle into 12 pie pieces. Next, the students place the primary colors on the color...

Students create a standard color wheel diagram in a stylized design. In this color wheel lesson, students create a standard wheel diagram using overlapping set of equilateral triangles in a reverse pattern and colors.

Take a real close look at your phone screen. What do you see? Here's an activity that provides guidance on how to look at a smart phone screen in order to see the pixels and to see how the phone creates colors and motion on the screen.

Learners explore how electronic screens use only three colors to produce the colors that people see on the screen. They make and test a color wheel.

Students discover new art techniques by examining the work of Paul Gauguin and his use of opposite colors.  In this art analysis lesson, students investigate the different perspectives and colors used in classic post impressionist...

Students practice measurement using real world objects. For this scavenger hunt for lengths lesson, students collaborate to measure with rulers, yardsticks, trundle wheels, and tape measures.  Students must estimate the length then...