Beyond-the-Basic Productivity Tools (BBPT)

Lesson Idea Name: Rainbows

Content Area: Science

Grade Level(s): Pre-Kindergarten

Content Standard Addressed: CD-SC1.4b Uses simple tools correctly to experiment, observe and increase
understanding.
Technology Standard Addressed: 3. Knowledge constructer
Selected Technology Tool: Bubbl.us

URL(s) to support the lesson (if applicable):

Bloom’s Taxonomy Level(s):
☒ Remembering ☒ Understanding ☒ Applying ☐ Analyzing ☐ Evaluating ☐ Creating

Levels of Technology Integration (LoTi Level):

☐ Level 1: Awareness ☐ Level 2: Exploration ☐ Level 3: Infusion ☐ Level 4: Integration
☒ Level 5: Expansion ☐ Level 6: Refinement
Universal Design for Learning (UDL): Students will create a bubble.us selecting their favorite color of the
rainbow, their favorite fruit and vegetable that has the same color as their favorite things. The teacher will
provide various options for children to express and demonstrate what they know via writing and speaking.
Lesson idea implementation: Read the book, “What Makes a Rainbow?” by Betty Ann Schwartz to the class.
After you read it, go back through it with the class to draw a rainbow with markers on a chart. Label the colors. Ask
the students if they know how a rainbow is made. Talk about when we see rainbows and then let the class make
predictions about what you need to make a rainbow. Tell them that you are going to make a rainbow for them inside
the classroom.

Fill a glass bowl 3/4 full of water. Set the bowl on the overhead projector. Turn the projector on. The light shining
through the water will make a rainbow appear. You can also shine a flashlight through the bowl for the same result.
After the students have seen the rainbow, ask them again what you need to make a rainbow. If no one knows, tell
them that light shining through water makes a rainbow. After you have finished your science experiment, let them
paint their own rainbows with watercolors. They can use the chart you made earlier in the lesson to get the colors in
the right order.
Reflective Practice: You can go around and ask the students individually to tell you what makes a rainbow.
Also, look at their paintings. Did they leave out any colors? Are they in the right order? Read other books about
rainbows. Try “A Rainbow of My Own” by Don Freeman or “All the Colors of the Rainbow” by Allan Fowler.
Use Fruit Loops or other similar cereal to make a rainbow. Just glue the cereal by color into a rainbow shape.
Lastly, ask students to create their own Bubbl.us in class of things that match the colors in the rainbow.

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