Time Frame: 30 minutes

TOPIC: Visual arts lesson focusing on a color wheel of the primary and

secondary colors, constructed by the students.

COMPONENT OBJECTIVES:

Artistic Perception: Each student will identify the primary and

secondary colors. Each student will construct a color wheel, using Play

Doh in the three primary colors.

RATIONALE: The visual arts reflect an understanding of visual

characteristics in our environment. The construction of a color wheel

allows students an opportunity to discover the relationship between

colors, and make connections to objects that surround them in their

environment.

STRATEGY:A combination of direct instruction and guided discovery will

be used.

VOCABULARY: Primary color, Secondary color, Combine

- Primary color - pigment or paint that imparts a yellow, red, or

blue hue.

- Secondary color - pigment or paint hue that results from

combining equal parts from two different primary colors,

resulting in green, purple, and orange.

- Combine - to mix or blend into one.

PROCEDURES

INTRODUCTION: Display a yellow piece of paper, and ask the students what

color they think they see. After the correct response has been

determined, flip the piece of paper over to reveal the word "yellow".

Display the paper at the front of the classroom, easily locatable. Repeat

this process with blue and red. Present the color wheel worksheet

pointing out red, blue, and yellow. Identify these as primary colors.

Ask the students how they think the colors green, orange, and purple will

be made. Identify these as secondary colors. Repeat the process of

PUPIL ACTIVITY SEQUENCE

1. Demonstrate how the students will split each color into three

equal pieces.

2. Give each student one small piece of red, yellow, and blue Play

Doh (about the size of a cherry tomato).

3. Hand out one color wheel worksheet to each student.

4. Direct the students to press one piece of yellow Play Doh onto the

worksheet, above the word "yellow". Repeat with blue and red Play

Doh pieces.

5. Ask the students to take one piece of yellow and one piece of blue

and squeeze it

together until a new color forms. Do not tell the

students what will happen; allow them to discover the process on

their own. Ask them to press the new color (green) above the word

"green" on the color wheel.

6. Complete the rest of the color wheel by combining red and yellow

to make orange, and blue and red to make purple.

7. Allow Play Doh to dry for one or two days before students take

their color wheels home.

CLOSURE: Once the color wheels are complete, review the names of the

colors by pointing to each name and asking for a group response. Ask what

two colors make-up green? orange? purple? Ask what three colors are

called primary colors? secondary colors?

EVALUATION: The students will individually be asked to name the primary

and secondary colors. The teacher will visually check completed color

wheels for the correct placement of all Play Doh colors.

MATERIALS/PREPARATION:

- Color wheel worksheets

- One container each of red, yellow, and blue Play Doh (for 25

students)

- One piece of construction paper in red, yellow, blue, orange,

purple, and green. Label each piece of paper with proper its

proper name.

CLEAN-UP: Collect color wheels when students have completed them. Wipe down tables.

EXTENSIONS:

- Mix colored water together.

- Read Dr. Seuss' My Many Colored Days book

REFERENCE: Lynn, Lois Ann. Mixing Primary - Secondary Colors. Internet

site:gopher://ericir.syr.edu:70/00/Lesson/Subject/Miscellaneous/cecmisc.39.