It’s Saturday, August 10, 2019, and time for Art at ClickSchooling!
Recommended Website:
(https://colormatters.com/color-resources/color-matters-for-kids)
Age Range: 6-12 (Grades 1-8, with parental supervision)
At this website, real-life Color Professor Jill Morton, provides kids with information about the science, history, and symbolism of color.
The topics are quite unusual and include:
- How Animals See Color – Explanations and actual photographs that demonstrate what you see and what your dog sees.
- Why Are School Buses Yellow? – Enjoy a brief discussion of “true yellow” and some facts about the color yellow you might not have known.
- Look Inside the Eye – Find out how cones and rods in the eye’s retina determine the colors that humans, insects, birds and animals see.
- Colors & What You Wear – What do you know about the colors of pink and blue? Find out what colors mean in different cultures.
- And more
When you are through exploring the kids’ section of the site, use the menu to explore color in depth. Professor Morton provides the sum total of every color course she’s ever taught and all the research she’s conducted on this site that is a continuation of her passion for color. You’ll find out how color affects:
- Symbolism
- Design
- Marketing
- The Body
- Vision
- Science
- And more!
