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Title:
| Art: Color Wheel |
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Description:
| 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. |
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Grade Level:
| 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 |
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Resource Links:
| Carmine's Introduction to Color
This site uses fun rhymes to explain what primary, secondary, and intermediate colors are. Mix colors before moving to another page and complete a quiz on color wheels.
Sanford's ArtEdventures with Carmine Chameleon
During this online adventure kids can learn about the color wheel, primary, secondary, and intermediate colors. Students also can find out what colors create these secondary and tertiary colors. Includes interactive game for mixing colors online.
BrainPOP: Color Do the Wave
Watch an animated movie and take the quiz. NOTE: The web site is available by subscription only.
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.
Color Factory
Visit the online color factory for fun activities. Select the "Sorting Sector" and practice your knowledge of the color wheel by selecting and placing right colors into the circle. Go to the "Mixing Room" and create secondary and intermediate colors using online mixing machine then go to the "Messy Area" to paint pictures.
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.
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.
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.
The World of Color
Here are interactive applets that demonstrate how colors interact, mix with each other, and affect images.
Additive Color
Learn what color addition is and how it works. Use spotlights to practice mixing colors.
Subtractive Color
Find out how color subtraction works and mix some colors.
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.
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Education Standards:
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MO Standards:
1.1, 1.2, 1.4, 2.1
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