Instructional Software

Lesson Idea Name: Colors

Content Area: Visual Art
Grade Level(s): 1st Grade

Content Standard Addressed:

VA1.CR.3 Understand and apply media, techniques, and processes of two-dimensional art.
Element: d. Identify primary colors and mix them to make new colors.
Technology Standard Addressed: 1 - Empowered Learner

Selected Technology Tool: BrainPop.com

URL(s) to support the lesson (if applicable): https://www.brainpop.com/artsandmusic/artconcepts/color/

Type of Instructional Software:

☒ Drill and Practice ☒ Tutorial ☒ Simulation ☒ Instructional Game ☐ e-books/e-references

Features of this software (check all that apply):

☐ Assessment Monitoring/Reporting
☐ Allows teacher to create customized lessons for students
☐ Multi-user or collaborative functions with others in the class
☐ Multi-user or collaborative with others outside the class
☒ Accessible to students beyond the school day
☒ Accessible via mobile devices
☐ Multiple languages
☒ Safety, security and/or privacy features

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):

Brain Pop allows students to grasp information and lessons about color more efficiently through cartoon
video lessons, related readings and diagrams, simulations, games, and more rather than just printed text.
Brain Pop enhances the learning environment for the classroom because you can’t just open up new bottles
of paint every day and practice colors, primary colors, mixing, etc. and the use of technology in this case saves
a lot of stress and students can go as far and as long as they want in order to learn and express their
knowledge about colors.
Lesson idea implementation:
First, I will demonstrate on my own on the projector using the BrainPOP simulator to first address the three
primary colors. I will then start a discussion with the class about what colors they know they can mix they will
give them a certain secondary color. I will then experiment and show all the different types of combinations
you can make. I will also show the effect on colors by adding either a little white or a little black. Next, I will
pass out blank white paper and highlighters so they can get a general idea about mixing colors and create a

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general idea on their own. Then, I will play the 5-minute-long lesson video, while pausing whenever the
characters introduce new words such as shades, tints, pastel, etc.
Once the video is over, I will set them free to BrainPOP and ask they complete a couple of the quizzes from
the video. After about 30 minutes of them playing games and doing simulations, I will have them come back
to their table group and complete a project that requires them to paint in a poster. Each section on the poster
will require a secondary color, so with their new skills on mixing colors, they will be able to complete the task
as a group while also discussing before mixing/painting so that any misinformation is addressed and
corrected. Finally, I will display these posters in the hall so the students can review and reflect on the lessons
they leaned about colors in visual arts. I predict the entire lesson to take an hour to an hour and 15 minutes.

Reflective Practice:
Having students utilize technology and use their different senses to access
information helps learning because it allows students to make connections within, as well as
between, concepts. The BrainPOP videos and images of colors and the concepts of colors such as mixing,
primary colors, shades, tints, pastels, etc. that is crucial to educate the students that maybe more on the
artistic side and possibly spark that interest or talent they have yet to discover. To further the lesson they may
get more into painting or different mediums of art.

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