Primary Colors – The REAL Physics of Color
What are the primary colors? NOT red, blue, and yellow. In this workshop, we explore the physics behind the primary colors of paint used in color subtraction and the primary colors of light used in color addition.
Articles Related to the REAL Primary Colors
From the color wheel being wrong to the language of color impacting what colors you can see, you will find some interesting articles related to color and perception here. Everything You Know About Color is ...
Butterfly Symmetry, Camouflage, and Disguise
A great lesson to put students' knowledge of the REAL primary colors of paints to use. Challenge students to create a butterfly using symmetry which uses either camouflage or disguise as a survival technique ...
Color Addition – Primary and Secondary Colors of Light
Use this worksheet with the RGB Light Show to simply focus on the primary and secondary colors of light. If you are looking for more advanced demonstration of understanding, look at RGB Light Show Worksheet ...
Design Inspirations from RAFT
Combine two unrelated ideas to inspire a creative new design! Engineers often use everyday objects to stimulate creative ideas. For example, an early ballpoint pen designer might have had a flash of inspiration while looking ...
Everything You Know About Color Is (Probably) Wrong
A great article by David Hixon which does a great job laying out our modern understanding of color theory ...
Flag and Primary Color Afterimage Optical Illusions
You can either print these out in color or just look at them on a screen to see an afterimage based on how your red, green, and blue color receptors work in your eye. Scroll ...
Mixing Colors Fingerpainting
Starting with the primary colors of paint (cyan, yellow, and magenta) have students add the colors using their fingers to first get the paint on one finger on one hand and another on the other ...
Negative Afterimages
Article from The Illusions Index explaining Negative Afterimages - staring at an image and then seeing different colors when you look away to a white screen or page ...
Primary Predicament – The REAL Primary Colors – #SciencingAndEngineering with Danielle Van Derlaske
Teacher Talk Video coming soon! Detailed Unit Plan The Primary Predicament Unit uses a 5E Lesson Plan Model from BSCS. You can find a one-pager describing the BSCS 5E Instructional Model. Part 1 - Paint ...
Rainbow-ish – ROY G BIV
Starting with the primary colors of paint (cyan, yellow, and magenta), challenge your students to mix up all the colors of the rainbow - red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. Below is the ...
REAL Primary Colors (NOT red, yellow, and blue)
If you ask a physicist, "What are the primary colors?" They would ask you, "Are you talking about light or paint?" The answer is different for light and paint but beautifully connected. The REAL primary ...
REAL Primary Colors Book
What are the primary colors? If you ask a physicist, they will have to ask you a question back. Are you talking about the primary colors of light, used for color addition, or the primary ...
REAL Primary Colors PQRST
How does your eye see a red apple? Explore this question using a phenomenon driven storyline to engage students in exploring how the eye works and how we create color using light and using pigments ...
RGB Color Light Show Video
Do you know the REAL primary colors? With just a few supplies from your local hardware store, you can recreate this STEMAZing demonstration of the REAL primary colors of light and color addition in your ...
RGB Light Show Worksheet
Do you know the REAL primary colors of light? Use this worksheet along with red, green, and blue flood lights to demonstrate the REAL primary colors of light and the principle of color addition. Find ...
RGB Primary Color Light Show Paper Circuit
Let students build this paper circuit to explore the REAL primary colors, which are NOT blue, yellow, and red! For detailed step-by-step instructions, check out our Instructable for this paper circuit: #STEMontheCheap RGB Light Show ...
Set Up for RGB Color Light Show Video
Video with tips about how to set up the RGB Light Show if you have your own set of red, green, and blue flood lights. Click on the title here, Set Up RGB Color Light ...
Spin Top Spin, Mix Color Mix
Key Question Can you create a top that spins? What happens when you make changes to the top? Learning Objectives Children will… construct a simple spinning top. learn to use and experiment further with the ...
STEMAZing Journal Hack
Make graph paper STEMAZing journals that require no staples or tape using an old bookbinding trick ...
Variables independientes, dependientes y de control
Como encender absolutamente cualquier cosa (buena casi) en un experimento cientifico! ...