General Atomics Sciences Education Foundation (GASEF)

It's a Colorful Life Table of Contents


Section Page
Table of Contents... 2
Author's Note... 4
Foreward... 6
More Foreward: To the Artist... 8
Even More Foreward: To the Color Scientist... 9
Color: An Overview... 10
Main Color Ideas... 11
   
Correspondence to the National Science Education Standards... 12
Correspondence to the Benchmarks for Science Literacy... 13
Learning Cycle Guide to Experiments... 17
Logical Construction of Module... 19
Suggestions for Grade Level Concepts to Guide Instruction... 20
 
Student Activity Worksheets
Experiment 1: Light Emitting Colors and Their Color Mixing... 21
Experiment 2: Colors that Absorb Light... 25
Experiment 3: Overlapping Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Their Complementary Colors... 28
Experiment 4: Overlapping Gradients of Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black... 31
Experiment 5: Color Printing using CMY... 33
Experiment 6: Mixing RGB or CMY Colors With the Color Wheel... 35
 
Teacher's Guides
Experiment 1: Light Emitting Colors and Their Color Mixing... 38
Experiment 2: Colors that Absorb Light... 62
Experiment 3: Overlapping Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Their Complementary Colors... 85
Experiment 4: Overlapping Gradients of Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black... 99
Experiment 5: Color Printing using CMY... 104
Experiment 6: Mixing RGB or CMY Colors With the Color Wheel... 110
   
Appendix 1: Some Word Fun... 118
   
References... 121
   
Materials List... 122
GASEF Educational Materials... 124
GASEF Web Site... 125

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