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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Mixing Light to Make Colors

For Students 3rd - 8th
You know how to make new colors by mixing paint or crayons. For example, you get green by mixing yellow and blue, or orange by mixing red and yellow. With paint, blue, yellow, and red are primary colors, which you can use to make other...
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Article
wikiHow

Wiki How: How to Mix Colors Properly

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

60 Second Science: Color Exploration I (Primary Colors Lesson Plan)

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Discover what primary colors are and explore ways in which red, yellow, and blue can be mixed to create new colors.
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Mix the Old With the New

For Teachers 7th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about how cooking causes changes in matter. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Whiteboard
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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Lesson Plan
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)

Smile: Mixing Colors With Light Beams

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this activity students learn how to mix different colors of light to create different colors.
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Activity
University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: Three Way Mix Up

For Students 3rd - 8th
Follow the rules and see if you can solve this problem about 3 different color tile arrangements. As always the solutions is available on this one page website.
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Activity
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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Activity
Exploratorium

Exploratorium: Science Snacks: The Three Little Pigments

For Students 9th - 10th
For this activity, you print different colors of the same image onto acetate, then explore the different color effects you get when they are overlaid on each other in various combinations.
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Lesson Plan
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)

Smile: Mixing Primary Colors

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Primary elementary lesson plan about primary colors. One rainbow activity and one blending activity.
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Interactive
Florida State University

Florida State University: Molecular Expressions: Primary Subtractive Colors

For Students 9th - 10th
Manipulate "pigmented" color discs to see how mixing subtractive colors affect the overall color.
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Interactive
University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Concentration

For Students 9th - 10th
Watch your solution change color as you mix chemicals with water. Then check molarity with the concentration meter. What are all the ways you can change the concentration of your solution? Switch solutes to compare different chemicals...
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Unit Plan
NASA

Nasa: The Space Place: Why Is the Sky Blue?

For Students 5th - 8th
Learn about colors of light by exploring how prisms work. Discover the different colors of the spectrum and how the visible light is what we see.
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Lesson Plan
ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Monet's Magic [Pdf]

For Teachers 4th
In this lesson, 4th graders will learn about the impressionistic painter, Claude Monet. Students will learn how to paint fuzzy (up and down strokes) while mixing tints, creating the illusion of water. They will also learn to do color...
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Leo Lionni's Little Blue and Little Yellow

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Young scholars will use Leo Lionni's literature and his website to learn about the author, mix primary colors, summarize and rewrite a story, and use graphing skills to determine the classes' favorite color.
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Lesson Plan
Marilyn J. Brackney

Imagination Factory: Paint a Wet Into Wet Watercolor

For Teachers 9th - 10th
"Wet-into-wet" painting is an interesting painting technique described in this website. Included are example images and "Tips and Tricks" for creating your masterpiece.

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