Art: Color Wheel
Learn about the nature of light and colors produced by it. Learn what the color wheel is and master skills of using it. Find out what primary, secondary, and intermediate (tertiary) colors are and why it is important to know them and their place in the color wheel. Use your knowledge of the color wheel to mix various colors. Includes interactive games, quizzes, applets, animated movie, and demonstrations of the color wheel and color mixing.
Grades
- 1,
- 2,
- 3,
- 4,
- 5,
- 6
Links
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BrainPOP: Color Do the Wave
Watch an animated movie and take the quiz. NOTE: The web site is available by subscription only.
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Color Fun from PrimaryGames
Start with the "I Spy" story to learn basic colors then choose link by link on this page for fun color games and two offline activities. NOTE: The site includes pop-up and banner ads.
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Delicious Color Wheel Pizzas in Grade Two: Lesson Plan
This lesson focuses on primary and secondary colors; provides pictures of color wheel projects. NOTE: This site includes ads.
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Art Lessons on the Color Wheel
This site provides practical lessons for teaching students about colors and the color wheel. Includes: Color Wheel Test, Color Wheel Shuffle, Color Wheel Art, and Mix it Up! NOTE: This site includes ads.
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Art Lessons for Kids – Color Theory Made Easy: Lesson Plan
This lesson provides a lesson for teaching students about the basic principles of color theory. NOTE: This site includes ads. NOTE: This site includes a discussion board (message board, forum, etc.).
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Colorwheel Bouquet Art Lesson: Lesson Plan
This simple lesson teaches students about the color wheel by having them create their own color wheel bouquet.
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Color Wheel Lesson Plans for Kids
This lesson uses the color wheel to teach students about primary and secondary colors. NOTE: This site includes ads. NOTE: This site includes a discussion board (message board, forum, etc.).
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Enchanted Learning: Color Wheel and Color Mixing
Find out how to mix colors and what the color wheel is. Includes "Label Me" printouts of the color wheel. NOTE: This site includes Google ads.
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Make a Splash with Color
Learn about color. Find out why and how we see colors. Discover how hue, saturation, and brightness effect an image. Click on the "Combining All Three" link to go to the part of the site with interactive color wheel for practicing use of hue and saturation.
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The Science of Light: Made from Dots
Read how cyan, magenta, and yellow colored dots are mixed together to produce images on paper. Click on the "Go" link and use three swatches to mix and match colors.
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The World of Color
Here are interactive applets that demonstrate how colors interact, mix with each other, and affect images.
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Color Matters: Design Art
This page has information about color wheel, primary, secondary, and intermediate colors. It introduces readers into understanding of harmony of colors based on analogous, complementary, and nature color schemes. NOTE: The site has a link to a bulletin board. NOTE: This site includes Google ads.
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