Name(s): Andrea, Danielle, Christa
DAILY PLAN
Lesson Title: Identifying and understanding color Grade Level:Pre-K
S & S Statements: This activity is created in order to reinforce students’ understanding with basic, or
primary colors, and to teach the color wheel. We will be focusing on the
students understanding how to mix the primary colors, red, blue, and
yellow, in order to create secondary colors. The lesson plans to serve the
students as an introduction to colors and their mixing properties. Pre-
kindergarteners experience a lot of their visual culture through colors,
whether it be from cartoons, to clothing and their picture books. Students
at this age need to understand their colors and how to mix them in order to
learn not only how certain colors come to be that they see in their own lives
but also so they can use color to express themselves, as well as develop
motor skills with brushes and paint as they are still developing at this time.
These painting motor skills can transfer in how to hold other materials
properly such as pencils, markers or crayons as well.
Concepts and Skills:
Concepts: Primary colors are used to mix secondary colors
Primary colors cannot be made by mixing any other colors
Skills: Brush cleaning skills
Color mixing skills
Academic Language:
Color mixing - adding two or more colors together to make a new one
Primary colors- red, yellow, blue
Secondary colors- Green, orange, purple
Paint- liquid color that covers a surface
Purpose of Lesson (Overall Lesson Objective): The students will successfully identify the primary
colors, as well as showing understanding to how create three secondary colors using paint.
Learning Objectives (List National Standard(s):
Conceptual Objectives:
Students will be able to clearly explain that primary colors are used to mix secondary colors
Students will be able to clearly explain that primary colors cannot be made by mixing other colors.
Students will be able to accurately identify the location of primary and secondary colors on the color
wheel.
Technical Objectives:
Students will be able to mix secondary colors from the primary colors to achieve a midpoint color
between the primaries on the color wheel.
Students will be able to consistently clean brushes to maintain clean colors.
Given paint in primary colors in a plastic bag, students will demonstrate knowledge of the color wheel
and color mixing through manipulating the paint through the bag in order to identify and create
secondary colors.
Assessment Criteria:
Accurately identifying primary and secondary colors
Clearly explain the origin of secondary colors
Demonstrate the control of color mixing process
Maintain clear colors while mixing
Teaching Resources Needed to Support the Lesson:
Colored paper
Stained glass example
“Mix it up!” by Herve Tullet
Color Wheel example (to be left up during the lesson)
Art Materials Necessary for the Lesson:
Red, blue and yellow tempera paint
Plastic zip lock bags
Clear tape
Paint brushes
paper plates
butcher paper
water cups
Teacher Directed Activities Student Activities
Introduction (5 to 10): Introduction
Go around the room and say your name and favorite Go around the room and say your name and
color. Then ask if students if they are aware of how favorite color, and share if they know the
they get their favorite colors and get a baseline of answer on how they get certain colors.
where the students are at in their development. Then
showing examples featuring stained glass, as well
as use the book, “Mix it Up” and display a color
wheel as a visual aid in mixing colors.
Development: Development:
After properly going over the color wheel, we will Students will follow along by manipulating the
hand out pre-filled bags with primary colors placed paint in the bag, and then holding up to the light
inside. Next, we will go over on how to manipulate to see how it affects their color wheel.
the paint through the bag with their hands. We will
explain how mixing primary colors create secondary The bags will be left on their desks as a
colors and instruct students to hold their bags to a reference and each student will be provided a
nearby window or light to see their own stained glass plate with the primary colors and work together
creations. painting and mixing colors on the butcher
paper.
To reinforce the ideas of color mixing, as students
are finishing their paint bags, there will be paint
prepped on paper plates and a large piece of butcher
paper laid out over the desks/floor. We will go over Conclusion: Students will review the butcher
on how to hold a paint brush properly as well as paper from their seats, we will ask students to
review color mixing on the paper and have students comment on the different colors that they notice
color mix and quiz them on how they are creating from their peers to bring the lesson full circle to
their colors as a review. the initial color wheel discussion.
Conclusion: Students will review the butcher paper
from their seats, we will ask students to comment on
the different colors that they notice from their peers
to bring the lesson full circle to the initial color wheel
discussion.
Critical Comments and Reflections:
(Problems, successes, differentiated learners, and what to think about for next lesson)
