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Subject/Course: Art Name: Amanda Den Bleker
Grade Level: 6 Date:
Topic: Colour Wheel Time:

1. Instructional Expectations and Opportunities
The grade 8 learners will:
a) Expectations:
– Identify colour relationships, using a basic colour wheel that they have made (tertiary colours, and complementary colours of tertiary colours).

b) Opportunities:
- Opportunity to paint
- Fine motor skills

2. Preassessment

a) Learners:
- Grade 6 learners know the primary colours and the secondary colours
- Grade 6 learners know what complementary colours are
b) Learning Environment:
- Students are sitting in small groups or pairs
- Painting supplies on a large table at the front of the class and on a large table at the back of the class, so that there are two supply stations.
c) Resources:
- Handout prepared with a 12 slice wheel.
- Questions pertaining to a tertiary colour wheel.
- Paint in the primary colours, paint brushes
- Chalk and chalk board
- Containers for water to clean the brushes
- Newspaper (to lay on the tables)
- Paint Pallets

3. Content
 4. Strategies
Primary Colours
Red, Yellow, Blue

R + Y = Orange
R + B = Purple
B + Y = Green
B + G(blue & yellow) = Blue-Green
Etc.

 

Collect colour information, and have students discuss how they may create all of these colours using the three primary colours.

Ask students to share with the class their favourite colour. Go around the room, asking each student, and adding their colour to the board. (I like to do this, because all students love to get involved, at least with simplistic things like this)

Of all the colours on the board, discuss with your partner, which of these colours are primary colours?

Using the three primary colours, how could you create three of the other colours listed on the board?

All colours are combinations of the primary colours.

 

b) Establishing the Learning
Primary Colours
Red, Yellow, Blue

Secondary Colours
Green, Orange, Purple


Tertiary Colours

Complimentary colours
The colours that are opposite from one another on the colour wheel.


Colour wheel
A colour wheel starts with the three primary colours, equal distance apart on the colour wheel. When you combine two primary colours, the secondary colour goes equal distance away from each primary colour. The tertiary colour goes between the primary and secondary colour that you are creating.

There are three primary colours. As we discusses earlier, they are red, yellow, and blue.

Combinations of primary colours create what we call secondary colours. For example, red and blue (both primary colours) make purple, a secondary colour.

But how do we get colours such as ‘poppy red’? Following secondary colours, tertiary colours are developed. They are created by combining a primary colour with a secondary colour. For example, a ‘poppy red’ OR an ‘orange-red’ could be created by combining, red (a primary) with orange (a secondary).

What is a complimentary colour? Do tertiary colours have complementary colours?

Discuss with your partner: How many slices are there in a primary colour wheel? Secondary? And tertiary?

 

4. Strategies (continued)
a) Consolidation of Learning:
Hand out 12 slice wheel to students and have them label each section correctly before painting each section. Once they have teacher approval, they can get the supplies that they need to paint.
b) Application / Reaction:
Each student will create a colour wheel including primary, secondary, and tertiary colours. For homework, students will complete a sheet of questions that will be answered based on the colour wheel that they have created. These will be handed in the next art class.
5. Assessment
Checklist for completion of a basic colour wheel with primary, secondary, and tertiary colours using paint.
Checklist for completion and accuracy of questions provided based on the colour wheel.