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| Did you ever wonder? |
| What is the color wheel and what the heck is color theory? How do we see color? What are rainbows? |
| Does everyone dream in color? Do you? How does color affect our mood? |
| How about dogs? Are they color blind? What does it mean to be color blind? |
| Why do we talk about spectrum in science? What did Isaac Newton have to do with the color spectrum? |
Spectrum Activities |
Take a color quiz; a free five minute personality test based on decades of research by color psychologists around the world. http://colorquiz.com/ |
| NIEHS Kids' Pages Interactive and Printable Online Coloring Books Do you know what happens when chickens see red ? Do you know how scientists use colors to help them in their work? Find answers, in a fun way to these questions and more. http://niehs.nih.gov/kids/color.htm |
Color Cube Color Fun Mix 64 |
| Take an online colorblind test. http://colorvisiontesting.com/online%20test.htm |
| Interactive Color Wheel demonstrating saturation-intensity-hue color space. http://r0k.us/graphics/SIHwheel.html |
Check out the activities and puzzles about the color wheel and spectrum. http://members.cox.net/mrsparker2/ |
Print the color wheel and color relationship chart and then color
and label the parts. |
| An interactive "web safe" color wheel. http://ficml.awardspace.com/jemimap/style/color/wheel.html |
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| Check out these Color Wheels |
Look at samples of traditional color wheels. |
| See the amazing, unusual color wheels and spectrum stories created by 6th grade students at I.C.E. |
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| Your task: Make a Spectrum Story! |
| Task # 1: In your notebook, write your definitions of the following words as they relate to color. (Use the artlex dictionary at http://artlex.com/ if you need help.) spectrum, color wheel, primary, secondary, tertiary, analogous, complementary, tint, shade, warm, cool. |
| Task # 2: Write a short story, poem or prose using the above words somewhere, somehow in your writing. |
| Task #3: Design a very original color wheel that illustrates your story. You will include the words in the spectrum story within and around your color wheel. After you have sketched the idea for your spectrum story with color wheel in your notebook, sketch it on a larger piece of blank paper. |
| Task # 4: Use only the primary colors (red, yellow, blue), along with black and white to create all the colors for your spectrum story. You can use the media of your choice: traditional media (markers, water colors, crayons, colored pencils, tempera paint etc.) or digital media. |
| Task # 5: Exhibit your work online and/or on the school bulletin boards and walls. |
Created by Meryl Meisler for TeachNet 2006.