1. Colors By: Andrea Colby

3. TEKS 117.2 Art, Kindergarten (b) Knowledge and Skills 1) Perception. The student develops and organizes ideas from the environment. The student is expected to: A) glean information from the environment, using the five senses, and B) identify colors, textures, forms, and subjects in the environment

4. Learning Objectives Students will be able to identify the primary colors,the secondary colors, and the intermediate colors. Students will have an understanding of a simple color wheel. Students will understand what colors make other colors when mixed. Students will understand why colors are important.

5. Unit Questions What are the primary colors? What does a color wheel do? What are the secondary colors? What happens when you mix two colors? What two colors make orange? What two colors make green? What two colors make purple?

6. Essential Questions Why are colors important? What is your favorite color? – Why? What color do you like the least? – Why? If you could create a color what would it look like? – What would you name it?

7. Did You Know? Yellow gets your attention faster than any other color – It is a Federal Law to make school buses yellow so that people can see them People often use color to describe things – The apple is red Color is important for safety – A traffic light turns red when you need to stop

8. Color Wheel

9. Activities What color is this?! – Students will look at a worksheet and color objects the color they should be. Primary, secondary, and intermediate colors are separate worksheets. Matching color game – Students will match colors with their corresponding names on crayon printouts. Create a color wheel – Students will make their own color wheel with the primary, secondary, and intermediate colors. Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? – After reading the book Brown Bear, Brown Bear students will go on a color hunt around the classroom and find different objects with a certain color to check off their color hunt list. Mixing paint – Students will use paint to mix the primary colors and create the secondary colors.

10. References http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/rules/tac/chapter117/ch117a.html #117.2 http://www.ces.purdue.edu/providerparent/Child%20Growth -Development/Children%20and%20Colors.htm www.crayola.com http://www.kidzone.ws/science/as-cwheel.htm