Studying the Effect of Color on Children in Learning Environment: Classrooms

Children are an essential part of society, and it must know how to deal with them. Also, provide them with complete comfort where children are considered the age group that can be affected by color more than others. The selected age group for children is from 5-to 12 because before that it is a baby, and after that, it is the beginning of adolescence. The objective of this thesis is how to reach a good learning environment that will support students to achieve an academically appropriate atmosphere in the classroom through color and some physical environment factors, which are checklist existing for the classroom, activity room, handicraft, sports area and external playground, and some criteria such as types of technology, furniture, lighting, visual elements, types of arrangement, the height of the space and color. This study's evaluation was based on the selection of 10 elementary innovation schools according to the criteria made to evaluate the cases, and the analysis of what had been collected from previous studies, to reach the main objective. To handle this thesis qualitative research method was adopted by reviewing previous studies, books, and websites. Furthermore, it is rich in such information. For example, the result of this thesis showed the effect of color as a cold color; it is better than warm color inside the classroom because it has a positive effect on concentration and growing up academic performance. In addition, the external spaces should have been included in the school's ground due to its rich environment in authentic experiences, and some articles called it an external learning environment.