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Mixing Colors with "Little Blue and Little Yellow"
Students mix colors to make new colors. In this color mixing lesson, students listen to Leo Lionni's Petit Bleu et Petit Jaune, before retelling the beginning, middle, and end of the story. They watch as the teacher mixes food coloring...
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Color Mixing Trophy Fish
Students compare colors. In this color lesson, students determine which colors are primary and which are secondary. Students investigate rainbows and create a piece of art organizing colors as they appear in a rainbow.
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Color Questions
In this colors worksheet, students read through a chart that explains which primary colors can be mixed together to form secondary colors. They then answer 3 questions about mixing colors. Finally, students answer 4 additional questions...
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Primary & Secondary Colors
Students gain the knowledge of how to create color/s. This is relevant in their lives as they will forever be exposed to color and learning to identify how color is created.
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Primary Shapes and Colors
For this math related worksheet, students practice mastering the primary shapes of a circle, square and triangle along with the primary colors of red, yellow and blue.
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Mixing It Up: The Color Wheel
Colors are the focus of this color wheel worksheet. Students experiment with colors by viewing a color wheel, then filling in the primary colors which are missing on another wheel. Students also decide which colors are made when two...
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How Do you Feel?
Students discover how moods and perceptions can be affected by colors. As a class, they create their own color wheel and identify primary and secondary colors. They draw their own cool and warm color mosaic and discuss how each one of...
North Birmingham Academy
Color Theory
What better way to learn about colors than by coloring? Starting with the primary colors, young artists follow written prompts to shade in various rectangles and a color wheel to show complementary colors, tints and shades, and more.
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Color Wheel
Second graders mix different combinations of the three primary colors to create the three secondary colors, then create new colors by mixing two or more different colors. They identify the colors they create.
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Rain Orchestra
First graders mix secondary colors from primary colors and simulate a rainstorm by using body percussion.
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Help Wanted: A Lighting Engineer For Popular Rock Group
Young scholars are assigned to groups, and determine each member's role in the group. They will design an experiment to determine a way to produce the three primary and five secondary colors. Students discuss color and mood. They listen...
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Complementary Color Experiments
Students experiment with color mixing and differentiate between primary and secondary colors. They use their observational skills in visual experiments with complementary colors to gain an understanding of the interrelationships of art,...
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Colors of the Rainbow
Students explore primary and secondary colors through the use of colors represented in the rainbow. They read and discuss the book, 'What a Wonderful World,' mix paint colors and paint rainbows, and create scratchboard paintings.
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Painting a Neighborhood
Students explore the concept of neighborhoods and identify primary and secondary colors. In this colors and community lesson, students read the book Harold and the Purple Crayon and then discuss the concept of a neighborhood. Students...
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Fishy Color Words
In this fishy color words activity, learners color six fish six different colors. Students color each fish the color written underneath each fish picture: purple. blue, yellow, red, orange, and green.
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Colors: Primary and Secondary
Students explore primary and secondary colors. In this lesson on light and color, students complete four different activities which include mixing colors, creating secondary colors from primary colors and observing the colors in a bubble.
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The Connection Between Pigment and Light Colors
Students learn the procedure for mixing secondary colors from primary pigments and observe the results of mixing two primary colors.
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The Purple Cow
Students read and discuss the poem, The Purple Cow. In this poetry instructional activity, students discuss the rhyming words in the poem and why this piece of literature is silly or unusual.
K12 Reader
Color Shows Mood
Colors, primary colors, secondary colors, neutral colors, mixing colors, the color wheel. As a reading comprehension exercise, kids read a short passage about colors and then answer a series of questions based on the article.
Urbana School District
Light
You matter, unless you multiply yourself by the speed of light ... then you energy. Presentation covers the behavior of light as both a wave and a particle, light versus sound, space travel, why objects have colors, depth perception,...
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Visual Arts
Learners create a finger painting which exhibits both the primary and secondary colors.
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Chromatography Lab
Students discover the components of primary and secondary colors. For this physical science lesson, students create a set up in which water will separate a color into the component colors along a piece of filter paper. Students will then...
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Secrets of Painting
Students explore colors and shapes. In this art concepts lesson, students discuss shapes, lines, and color while creating a variety of abstract designs. The instructions for several art activities are provided. Basic art vocabulary and a...
Mr. Printables
I Heart Color
Color wheels. Primary, secondary, tertiary color wheels. Colorful flower wheels, black-and-white wheels. Grab this pack of printables and templates for use with all of your color lessons.