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Color Theory Web Quest

Part A: Use the following website to find the answers to questions 1-10. Then proceed to Part B.

Color Theory http://www.colormatters.com/colortheory.html

1. What is a color wheel?

2. Who developed the first color wheel and in what year? Sir Isaac Newton 1666

3. .What three colors are all other colors derived from?

4. What term is used to describe these three colors?

5. What term is used to describe the three colors created by mixing two of the three primary colors?

6. What is color harmony?

7. Define analogous:

8. Define complimentary:

9. Describe how a color can look different in different contexts.

10. How can three colors be perceived as four?

Part B: Choose an essay from the following list. Write a summary of its contents. You and your partner[s] will be asked to present your findings to the class.

Color and Culture Matters

Color and Symbolism

Color Effects of Cars

Gender differences in response to color

Color and Food Matters

Drunk Tank Pink

The Effects of Color on the Body

Color and the Workplace / Color and Residential Interiors

Color and Critical Environments

Color and Vision Matters

How the Eye Sees Color

Quirks of the Color Quest

Color and Usability Matters

Color and Energy Matters

Quirks of the Color Quest

Computers That Think Different