Overhead Color Amazement! Use this lesson plan in combination with Filters of Color.
Objectives: Students predict color combinations. Students write creatively about images and scenes.
Focus: Ask students to recall times they have seen images in the clouds. You might imagine a donkey, a duck or a dinosaur depending on the shape of the cloud. You have to use your imagination.
Materials:
**Two blank transparency pages
**Food colors
**The overhead projector
Procedure and Monitoring:
Show the students all the materials you will be using.
Place a transparency page on the overhead projector .
Randomly place five or six dots of YELLOW on the page.
Ask the students to predict what will happen when you place the second transparency page on top of the first.
Put the second page on top of the first and watch the screen.
Lift up the second page and place five or six drops of BLUE.
Have the students write predictions about what new colors will be seen.
Place down the second page again and watch the screen. (It all seems to move!)
Lift up the second page and place five or six drops of RED.
Have the students write predictions about which new colors will appear.
Place down the second page again and watch the screen.
Write answers to the predictions. Ask the students to imagine pictures in the image on the screen just like you can imagine images in the clouds. Write about and draw what you see. Come up to the screen one at a time to point out your image to the rest of the class.
Close: Review which combinations of blue, yellow and red result in which other colors. Ask students to read what they wrote and share what they drew with the rest of the class. If some of your classroom materials are organized by color, point out how we use our sense of sight to organize our possessions and learn.
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