Basic Productivity Tools (BPT)

Lesson Idea Name: Colors, Colors Everywhere!

Content Area: Visual Arts
Grade Level(s): 1st grade
Content Standard Addressed:
VA1.CR.3 Understand and apply media, techniques, and processes of two-dimensional art.

d. Identify primary colors and mix them to make new colors.

Technology Standard Addressed:

Global Collaborator
Selected Technology Tool: PowerPoint

URL(s) to support the lesson (if applicable):

Bloom’s Taxonomy Level(s):

☒ Remembering ☒ Understanding ☒ Applying ☒ Analyzing ☒ Evaluating ☒ Creating

Levels of Technology Integration (LoTi Level):

☒ Level 1: Awareness ☒ Level 2: Exploration ☒ Level 3: Infusion ☒ Level 4: Integration
☐ Level 5: Expansion ☐ Level 6: Refinement

Universal Design for Learning (UDL):

To support the learning of all students, the PowerPoint software would be accessible to all students as they
share and collaborate their own created products and ideas with each other. Students will be able to express
their knowledge of colors and interact with learning content through PowerPoint.
Lesson idea implementation:
Before beginning the lesson, the teacher will scaffold what the students know about colors and the mixing of
color that create new colors. The teacher would explain primary colors with students and explain to them
that when colors such as the primary colors are mixed, they create other colors of the rainbow. Students will
be responsible for create products such as graphic organizers or Venn diagrams to show their understanding
of color mixtures making new colors. Being that some of the student are unsure of the new colors they will
make, this encourages student’s exploration and discovery. I would extend the lesson by talking about how
rainbows are formed. As light shines through the rain drops they reflect all colors of the rainbow. I would
have students perform a demonstration of their own using a glass prism and light. Students would be given
feedback and their work would be assessed during their work time as they are creating their graphic
organizers.
Reflective Practice:
I believe that the lesson would result in student’s learning through discovering, collaboration, and sharing.
The students are able to learn that all colors come from other colors. The students were able to illustrate
what they discovered about a wide range of colors. The lesson could be linked to future science lesson on
how we are able to see the colors that we see and how the reflection of light enables us to see certain colors.

Spring 2018_SJB