Creating Colour
Creating Colour (1.5) Lessons and Projects
Identifying Colours: 1.5.1
Students will create a colours ebook.
Find colours in the classroom and
Science: Colours (Blank)Science: Colours Compare and contrast colours, using terms such as lighter than, darker than, more blue, brighter than. 1.5.2
Sort the colours on the side in your own way.
Sort the colours on the side into dark or light.
Lighter Than, Darker Than: 1.5.2
Students will practice changing the colour of shapes on then create a colour swatch.
Order a group of coloured objects, based on a given colour criterion. 1.5.3
Students will create a paint swatch template . You can also have them add colours to circles on a colour wheel.
Predict and describe changes in colour that result from the mixing of primary colours 1.5.4
Distinguish colours that are transparent from those that are not. 1.5.6
Separate sunlight into component colours: Painting a Prism 1.5.10
Students create a digital "painting" of a prism to learn the colours that form when light is refracted with a prism.
Grade 1 Creating Colour Templates
Links
Mixing Colours - This interactive resource from The Learning Federation allows students to use a mixing machine to make new colours from red, blue, yellow, and white. (Automatic log-in when accessing from school)
PowerKnowledge Physical Science Use this resource to find factual information organized into topics such as atoms and molecules; elements and periodic table; light and colour; energy and matter; force and motion; and temperature and measurement. Videos, web links, games, listen feature, and a list of science experiments are included. (Automatic log-in when accessing from school)