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| Color | Curriculum Integration: Physical Science |
| NC Course of Study Objectives: | 21st Century Skills: | |
| 1.07 | B.1 | |
| 2.01 | B.1 | |
| 1.06, 2.02 | B.4 | |
| 1.07 | B.4 | |
| 7.03 | C.7 | |
| 7.01 | B.7 | |
| 2.05 | C.2, C.9 |
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Skills
- Mixing colors

- Care of brushes and paints

- Value studies

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Artists
- Georges Seurat - 1859-1891 - developed 'Pointillism' - used small dots of bright color to create final colors.
His most famous painting is "Sunday on the Isle of the Grand Jatte"


- Yellow Submarine - 1968 - graphic designer Heinz Edelmann worked with a team of animators/illustrators to create the artwork for this Beatles film


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Words We'll Use
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Analogous Colors: Colors that are closely related to each other -
next to each other on the color wheel; for example: blue, blue-violet, violet colors.

- Arcoiris: Arc of Iris, Greek goddess of the rainbow - spanish for rainbow.

- Color: The effect of different wavelengths of light reflecting from
an object onto the eye.

- Complementary colors: Colors that are exactly opposite each
other on the color wheel; for example: blue and orange.

- Hue The name of the color.

- Intensity: The brightness or dullness of a color; amount of saturation.

- Palette: A color scheme – the selection of colors used in an artwork.
Also, the board or plate used by an artist for mixing paints.

- Primary Colors: The basic colors that can't be reduced into
component colors and can be used
to mix all other colors.

- Secondary Colors: Colors made by mixing two primary colors. When red, yellow and blue are
used as primary colors, the secondary colors are orange, green and violet.

- Shade: A dark color achieved by adding black.

- Spectrum: All the wavelengths of electromagnetism, including x-rays,
gamma rays, radio waves, infrared, ultraviolet, microwaves, etc.

- Tempera paint: A water-based paint that is inexpensive and easy to use.
Can be purchased as a powder, or pre-mixed with water.

- Tint: A light color achieved by adding white.

- Tone: A color mixed with gray (black and white).

- Value: The relative lightness or darkness of a color.

- Visible spectrum: The range of wavelengths of light that is visible to the human eye.

Projects
- Pointillism - Painting ribbons of color
Use dots of a color and its analogous color to fill in each stripe. Use your creativity to fill in the background areas in an exciting way.
- Value Study #1

- Mixing skin tones


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Keeping Busy
- Finding rainbows in strange places -
Use colored pencils to make a drawing that is black and white except for a rainbow in some unusual place.
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Enrichment
- Rainbows - CDs, Bubbles

- Color Transparencies - mixing colors

- Video - Yellow Submarine

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Homework/Makeup Work
- Find 10 photos of rainbows or examples of rainbow artfrom magazines,
commercial art, or printed from the internet. Mount them neatly on a background paper.

- Look up color blindness. Write a report and/or bring in interesting graphics to show the class.

- See also - General Homework options on the Homework page.

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