Lesson 1: color wheel
Duration of Days: 5
Lesson Objective
1-Students will be able to mix primary colors to create a color wheel.
2- students will understand the connection between science and color through temperature
1- What does the word primary mean?
2- Why do we study color?
3- Why are the colors of the rainbow in a certain order?
4- If you see a rainbow where is the sun?
Primary Colors: Red, Yellow, and Blue
Secondary Colors: Mixed from two primaries (Orange, Green, Violet).
Tertiary (Intermediate) Colors: Created by mixing a primary with its neighboring secondary (e.g., Red-Orange or Blue-Green).
Tint: Any hue plus White.
Shade: Any hue plus Black.
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Anchor Standard #1. Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.
Anchor Standard #2. Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.
-Vocabulary
- Critical thinking and organizing
- Analyzing color relationships
Color Theory is a DOK level 2- skill. It requires a basic understanding of mixing and applying the primary, secondary, and tertiary colors
Real world connections to our enviormant as well as through job application such as: Marketing & Branding (Consumer Psychology), Architecture & Interior Design, Safety & Information Design etc.
Cultural Relevance In a high school curriculum, exploring cultural connections to color moves students from "how to mix" to "how to communicate." Colors act as a silent language where meanings are shaped by history, geography, and tradition
1-That the study of color has no releance in the real world
2- that there is no need to mix your own colors
3- colors do not have signaicant meaning in different cultures.
students can apply color theory to a nonconventional color wheel (such as a nonboject design).
Was the student able to demonstrate their knowledge of basic color theory by producing a color wheel?
Color Wheel examples (can be ditigal)
- Painting tools and materials: only primary colors and black and white paint, paper , brushes, water cups,
-cleaning items