SUBJECT: Color
LEVEL: K - 6 

TYPE: Development, Discovery, Creative

GOALS: 	I.   Understand the role of art in people’s lives.
	II.  Communicate through the arts.
	II.  Respond to the arts.
	IV.  Value the nature and meaning of the arts.

OBJECTIVES: As a result of this lesson the students will :
	I.   Recognize ways that the world around us influences artistic creation
	II.  Control materials, tools, techniques and processes while creating art
	II.  Take an idea thru planning, reflecting and revision process
	III. Identify and discuss characteristics and contexts of works of art
	III. Use arts vocabulary when talking or writing about. art
	IV.  Explain why people create art
	IV.  Discover how people’s feelings are reflected in art forms and styles. 	 	     
	     Evaluate personal art work in line with the grade focus using supporting examples
 	
PROCEDURE: The teacher will:
	1. Ask students to recall the elements that are found in all art, using a fine art print, their personal art work and a 	    
	    teaching poster from the classroom for comparison.
	2. Ask them if they were allowed to paint but only able to use 3 colors- which colors would they choose?
	    Have them give reasons for their answers. (Most choose their favorite colors, but some will give other 	 	 	    
	    interesting rational for their choices.) 
	3. Explain that there are 3 colors that exist that would provide them with endless choices of colors.
	    Introduce the Primary Colors.
	    Use the overhead projector, and 3 petri dishes filled with water. As you say “red”, add red food coloring.
	    Do the same with yellow and blue. Make sure the 3 colors are displayed in the correct order with yellow at the 	    
	    top, red on the left and blue on the right.   
	4. Introduce the Color Wheel as a tool that they will use for art and if it is to be effective it must be made 	 	 	    
	    correctly. Ask students to take out the primary color crayons, markers or colored pencils so they can complete 	    
	    their own wheel properly. At the overhead add 3 more petri dishes- empty, in the spaces between the Primary 	    
	    colors so it looks just like their sheet.  
	5. Call on students to come to the overhead and combine primary colors in order to complete the color wheel. 	
	6. Grades K-2: Concentrate on the Secondary colors. Teach the Primary Color song. Complete grade level 	 	    
	    activities that demonstrate the combination of Primary colors in order to create Secondardy colors. 
	    Grade 3: Use Picasso’s Mother and Child and The Tragedy to initiate a discussion on how colors can 	 	 	    
	    communicate feeling. Group colors into cool and warm colors. Create collage of cool color snowflakes.
	    Grade 4: Focus on the Complementary colors and their use.
	    Grade 5: Using the same Picasso prints as Gr. 3, develope an awareness of Tints and Tones and how they are 	    
	    created. Practice color mixing with students before using this knowledge to create a landscape.  
	    Grade 6: Create color wheel only at this point. Review cool and warm colors, complements and tints and tones
	8. Guide students to plan, create and revise an art work, then reflect on it as a successful piece of art.

MATERIALS: Reproductions, example of the Color Wheel, Color Wheel worksheets	

EVALUATION: Did students:
	Intentionally take advantage of the qualities and characteristics of art media, techniques and processes to 	
	enhance communication of their experiences and ideas?
	Use materials appropriately, complete steps in the forming process with understanding?
	Employ organizational structures and analyze what makes them effective or not in the communication of ideas?
	Compare the characteristics of 2 or more art forms that share similar matter and/or cultural context? 
	Compare multiple purposes for creating works of art?
	Reflect on and assess the characteristics and merits of their work?

CURRICULUM EXTENSION: Language Arts: K:R3.1,1:S1.3, 2:S1.2, 1:R3.2, 4:W2.4;S1.2, 5-6:R3.3, 5-6:W2.2, 5-6:S1.2
			        Math/Science: Geometric Shapes, Lines, Fish- Seas environment


GRADE K 	Mondrian Picture- Red, Yellow, Blue- Primary Colors
		Painting
		Tempra, Black Crayon
		Bubble Print- Secondary Colors
		White Paper, Bubble Mixture with Glycerine, Straws, Food Coloring
		Blob Heart- Secondary Colors

GRADE 1	String Print Heart- Secondary Colors
		12x18 White Paper, 3, 18" Strings per student, Primary Color Tempra			
	Gyotaku- Rainbow Fish, Primary and Secondary Colors
		Buffalo Head Fish, Primary Color Tempra, 12x18 paper, Brayer
		Japanese Printing Techniques
		
GRADE 2	Coffee Filter Hearts- Secondary Colors
		Coffee Filters, Scissors, Primary Color Food Coloring
		Cutting, Color Recognition

GRADE 3	Cool Color Snow Flakes
		Green, Blue, Purple Tissue Paper, Varied sizes Circle Templates, Thinned 		
		Glue or Mod Podge, White Tagboard
		Cutting, Glueing, Cool/ Warm Color Recognition

GRADE 4	Complementary Color- Line Design Painting
		9x12 Tagboard, Primary, Secondary Color Tempra
		Circle Tracer, Ruler
		Color Arrangement, Painting Techniques
		Complementary Color Collage
		12x18 Black Paper, Smaller Primary and Secondary Color Squares
		Cutting, Glueing, Color Arrangement

GRADE 5	Tint to Tone Landscapes
		Tagboard, One Color plus White Tempra for each student
		Color Mixing, Painting Techniques

GRADE 6	Color Wheel