COFFEE FILTER COLOR-
Use this lesson plan in combination with Color Overhead Amazement.
Quick Summary:
1.Show and pass out filters
2. Students copy while you go around placing drops of color
3. Students glue their filters and writing on drawing paper.
Materials
A box of white coffee filters for automatic coffee machines. Food colors.
Focus:
Show the students a prepared example of how drops of food color combine to make new combinations on a coffee filter.
Procedure:
First pass out a filter to each student. Then give the students a "fill in the blank" paragraph to copy.
On the blackboard:
When blue mixes with red it creates ________.
When blue mixes with yellow it makes _________.
Mixing yellow with red makes _________.
Red, yellow and blue are called the __________ colors. (primary)
While they are copying you can go around to each student's filter at their desk and randomly place three or four drops of a color on their filter. Repeat this with each of the other two primary colors placing each subsequent drop close to the others and the students will be able to FILL IN THE BLANKS WITH THE EXAMPLE IN FRONT OF THEM!
So when a student says," What do I write here?", point to the example on their filter and have them answer the question themselves.
Close:
Have the students glue (with just two or three drops of glue) the filter and their written work on a large piece of manila art paper and the students will have a project page.
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