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Color Theory

This is something my IG gifted students enjoyed and learned from.(Masters in gifted ed and 21 years experience in the field).

We got powdered tempera paints in bulk (cheaper) We studied primary colors and made them from the powdered tempera (just add water). You might bring in that black and white are not really "colors", etc.

Then, we made the secondary colors by mixing 2 primary colors. Blue+red = purple, red+yellow = orange, yellow+blue = green.

3 primary colors together make a tertiary color.

I taught 2nd-8th IG students and the lessons were adapted to diff. ages and the interests of the students . All ages loved their classes on Color Theory.

We made and had made some simple easels and got the big sheets of tablets(?) placed on the easels.

Palettes were fun to make and use, too.

I have just given the bare bones, but you will be able to build this unit for your own students.

We used our c...See More


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