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Interactive
PBS

Wgbh: Peep and the Big Wild World: Games: Paint Splat

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Young players will enjoy this cleverly animated color-mixing game that guides them through the process of mixing and matching colors. [All instructions and prompts are voiced, not written, making this an excellent resource for English...
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Interactive
Project Britain

Primary Homework Help: Color Investigation Puzzle

For Students 3rd - 8th
Try making words on the screen disappear by changing the background color of this page. Add or subtract red, green, or blue, and see how light is made up of many different colors.
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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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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: All About Colors

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart features a kindergarten lesson introducing students to the basic colors.
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eBook
Unite for Literacy

Unite for Literacy: Create and Play: Squish!

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A book about the primary and secondary colors. Includes audio narration in 16 additional languages with text in English.
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Writing Rainbows

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Students begin this lesson by reading several books about colors such as Cat's Colors by Jane Cabrera, My Many Colored Days by Dr. Suess, Hailstones and Halibut Bones by Mary O'Neil, and A Color of His Own by Leo Lionni. After discussing...
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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.
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Activity
Other

Mixing Mouse Tracks

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This art idea is based off the children's book "Mouse Paint" by Ellen Stoll Walsh. A fun way to introduce young learners to the primary and secondary colors through simple mixing exercises.
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Website
NumberNut

Number Nut: Basic Topics: Shapes, Symbols, and Colors: Colors

For Students 3rd - 8th
A short explanation of how we see color and what each of the primary and secondary colors symbolize.
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Activity
Other

Well styled.com: Webdesigner Tools: Color Scheme Generator

For Students 9th - 10th
A totally cool concept! Choose your base color, your scheme (monochromatic, etc.) and the computer will show you what other colors go with it! There are even settings for various levels of color-blindness. A really cool art tool!!
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Handout
Other

Watercolor painting.com: Color Theory

For Students 9th - 10th
A great introduction to color theory with colorful illustrations and examples.
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Interactive
Quia

Quia: Color Theory

For Students 9th - 10th
Four activities quizzing vocabulary terms about the usage of color in art. Matching, concentration, flashcards, and a word search are available. Teachers can use these to supplement their lessons, or to help students review for a test.
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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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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: The Colorful Desert

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
In this lesson plan, The Colorful Desert, written by Audrey Wood, is used as a mentor text for sentence fluency. The content focus of the lesson is about how sentences build through a "building on" book. Students will use sentence frames...
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Interactive
Other

Color Cube: Color Fun

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Six activities sure to engage students of any age! Interactive games and puzzles let you play with color and create your own unique designs!
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physical Science: Color

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Overview of the different colors in visible light and how they relate to its wavelength, how a prism separates visible light into its different colors, the colors of...
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Interactive
South Carolina Educational Television

Know It All Media: Light and Color

For Students 3rd - 8th
Why do we see certain colors? This interactive animation demonstrates the concept of the visible spectrum, and how we see the different colors of the rainbow.
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Unit Plan
Ingles Mundial

Ingles Mundial: People (La Gente)

For Students 9th - 10th
Great tool for teaching Spanish-speaking English Language Learners (ELL). This vocabulary lesson focuses on: opposites, colors, words for describing people. A variety of interactive, self-correcting exercises are provided to reinforce...
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Handout
ArtLex

Art Lex: Color

For Students 9th - 10th
An in-depth instructional page on color that defines a variety of terms related to color.
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Website
Enchanted Learning

Enchanted Learning: Piet Mondrian: An Abstract Painter

For Students 3rd - 8th
A site created by Enchanted Learning about the Dutch abstract painter, Piet Mondrian. Contains a brief biography, an art activity, a coloring page, and links to other great sites with more information.
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Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Light Properties

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students learn about the basic properties of light and how light interacts with objects. They are introduced to the additive and subtractive color systems, and the phenomena of refraction. Students further explore the differences between...
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Primary
University at Buffalo

Univ. At Buffalo: Circle Association's Rita Dove Page

For Students 9th - 10th
Site from the University at Buffalo is still under construction for a mini biography and bibliography. However, site does have an interview of Rita Dove from 1997 and thirteen writings or poems by Dove. Links to other African American...
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Website
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Ucar: About Rainbows

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the University Corporation of Atmospheric Research provides an illustrated article about the phenomenon of rainbows.
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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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