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Shift: primary
Timing: 90 minutes
Achievement indicators:
Students will:
2. Explain how black and white can be added to colors to create shades and tints.
3. Analyze how color can be used to express feelings and convey ideas in art.
Materials:
Photocopies of any activities you want students to complete without the use of a
computer
Vocabulary:
Lesson Procedure:
1. Day 1: Ask students if they have ever tried to mix colors of paint or crayons. What
happens? How can new colors be made? Demonstrate what happens when various
food coloring drops are added to water. Ask students to make predictions and make
observations about what they see.
2. Show the Colors movie to the class with the closed captioning on so that students can
read the vocabulary terms.
3. Review what students learned from the movie by displaying the Word Wall. Have
students suggest definitions for each term before you click the word to reveal
BrainPOP Jr.'s definition. Can students name examples of each term?
5. Allow each group to have about 10 minutes at each station so all students have a
chance to explore all three activities.
6. Day 2: Revisit the Word Wall, displaying the definitions this time and having
students supply the terms.
7. Divide students into three groups to extend their understanding of colors in three new
stations:
--The first group can take the Hard Quiz, play the Matching Game, and revisit any of
the Colors features (including the movie itself) that they would like to explore further.
--The second group can use crayons to complete the Activity. This can serve as an
assessment to see how well students understand the use of warm and cool colors.
--The third group will play a game as they experiment with various paint colors. Give
the children red, blue, yellow, black, and white paints and thick paper. Have one
student create a color using a combination of two paints while the other group
members close their eyes or turn away. Then have the group members try to recreate
the same color. Remind students to add small amounts of paint–-it's easier to add a
color than to take one away.
8. Allow each group to have about 10 minutes at each station so all students have a
chance to explore all three activities.
9. Bring students back to a whole class discussion and show an image of a painting they
are familiar with from a book, movie, or previous unit of study. Invite students to
make inferences about how the artwork was created: Are tints and shades used?
Mostly warm or cool colors? Which primary colors might the artist have combined to
create the secondary colors in the painting? How do the colors help the artist convey a
feeling or idea?
Extension Activities:
Encourage students to analyze a favorite piece of art. They can write (or tell) about the colors
used by the artist, how those might have been created, and what ideas and feelings are
expressed through color.