Lesson Plan

Subject/Grade Art/Grade 2

Unit/Skill/Topic of COLOR-Primary and Secondary Colors (Mixing)

Lesson

INTRODUCTION

Standards VA:Cr2.1.2 VACr3.1.2

Addressed
VA:Re9.1. a. Experiment with a. Discuss and
What specific 2 various materials and reflect with peers
standards are being tools to explore about choices made
assessed​? personal interests in a in creating artwork
a. Use learned art
vocabulary to work of art or design
express preferences
about artwork

Learning Essentials Target Essential Question Criteria

● Target -student will be able to How can new colors be -student understands
● Overarching name and recognize made? the secondary colors
Essential primary and secondary and primary colors
Question(s) colors needed to make them
● Measurement of
Knowledge/Skill/A -student will be able to -basic knowledge of
bility mix primary colors to the color wheel and
make secondary colors color wheel order

-student will have basic

understanding of the
color wheel and know
the correct order

Technology -Students use Smartboard Exchange activity to mix primary colors to

Integration create secondary colors
Rationale http://legacyexchange.smarttech.com/details.html?id=c7706fef-41aa-49f3-
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Briefly state how the
technology is being -Students watch a video on color mixing
used to enhance the https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9gIj0j7Ba0
learning experience for
the student.. -Students use and review vocabulary on Quizlet: ​color, rainbow, primary,
secondary, color wheel, mix

MATERIALS Smartboard Exchange ​Let’s Mix

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Primary Colors Sesame Studio

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9gIj0j7Ba0

Pre-made Quizlet card for vocabulary words on COLOR unit

Color Mixing Worksheets

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Tempera Cakes set for each table (red, yellow, blue)

Paint brushes

Waterbuckets

Paper towels

Warm Up / Do Now Review​ primary colors with students: red, yellow, blue

Meaningful activity to Explain to students that they’ll be mixing those primary colors in this
activate prior lesson
knowledge, practice a
skill, or provide an
opportunity to deepen
an understanding.

BODY

Launch Activities Play​ Primary Colors Sesame Studio video

“I Do”
Open Smartboard Exchange​ ​Let’s Mix​ application.
Model (think-alouds) -whole-group instruction with pages 1-4 by introducing primary and secondary
Whole-group colors.
instruction
Check for
understanding

Exploration Activities Together as a class, students and teachers will engage in completing the
“We Do” Let’s Mix​ application pages 5-12
-includes a color mixing song to the beat of “If You’re Happy and You
Gradual release Know It”
Check for -students will select secondary colors
understanding -check student understanding by asking which secondary occurs when
mixing primary colors

Practice Pass out a blank color wheel to student groups that have only the primary
“Peers Do Together” colors identified (color copy). Give groups the missing secondary colored
triangles and have groups place the secondary colors in the correct places
Partner or Triad on the color wheel.
Activity
Check for
understanding

Independent Work Students use primary color tempera cakes to mix primary colors
“You Do” -sample color mixing worksheet 1.
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Individual Activity
Formative Assessment

Small Group Reteach Proficient/Advanced Confused Struggling

or
Differentiation Students that are Students will be given more opportunity to
proficient will begin practice color mixing before moving on to the
What strategies and/or mixing their own colors color mixing unit project.
technology will you for the story, ​Mixed,​ in http://legacyexchange.smarttech.com/details.ht
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learners to achieve the
goal? Consider how
you might scaffold the
lesson.

CLOSURE

Exit Ticket Students complete color mixing worksheet 2.

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what the student
learned? Student accurately mixed the correct primary colors to create the three
secondary colors.

Reflection Data from this lesson and assessments will drive the next lesson using the
book, ​Mixed.​ Students will use this understanding to mix the color
How will data and characters from the story, adding character details, and creating a city for
formative assessments their “mixed colors” to live in. In next lesson for ​Mixed,​ provide students
drive your next with the color mixing worksheet that they practiced during class.
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These are the changes I will be incorporating to do things differently:

1. I will add another song, such as the ​Sesame Street Primary Colors
video that will add gross motor to the lesson (students jump to color
mixing)
2. Possibly give students an opportunity to mix some of their colors
first for some exploration on their own before giving them direct,
whole-group instruction on color mixing.

Students enjoyed making their own colors when given only the primary
colors. They wanted to keep color mixing.