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From: Behalf Of Barbara Bay
Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 6:46 AM
To: Forum for Physics Educators
Subject: Re: [Phys-l] experiments with dyes (was: happy equinox)
P.S. Could someone out there point me to a website or explain why the
primary colors of pigment are cyan, yellow, and magenta in our textbooks
(and in our color printers), but the art teachers (at least in HS)
insist they are not the primary colors of pigment??? I do not know
enough about art to answer the questions my art students pose. We do
activities where they discover what their textbook says is true, but I
don't know how to answer when they want to reconcile what they learned
in my class with what their art teachers say. Maybe it is because I too
have some of those misconceptions, and/or just a big hole in my
knowledge.
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Here are a number of references:
"It's Time to Teach the Correct Primary Colors," Larry and Wendy Woolf,
The Painted Monkey: The Newsletter of the California Art Education
Association, Volume 28, No. 1, January 2002, p. 20.
<http://www.sci-ed-ga.org/pdfs/Final%20Monkey%20article.pdf>
<http://www.sci-ed-ga.org/pdfs/1-17-08%20TeacherTECH%20program.ppt
and many other "It's a Colorful Life Presentations at:
http://www.sci-ed-ga.org/GASEFPresentations.html>
It's a Colorful Life education module
<http://www.sci-ed-ga.org/modules/materialscience/color/It's%20a%20Color
ful%20Life.pdf>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_color
"Confusing Color Concepts Clarified," L. D. Woolf , The Physics Teacher
37, 204 (1999).
Larry Woolf
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