Overview | Content Knowledge | Essential Questions | Connection To Standards | Initiating Activity | Learning Experiences | Culminating Performance | Pre-Requisite Skills | Modifications | Schedule/Time Plan | Technology Use
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LU Title: Colors |
Author(s): Susan Proulx |
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Grade Level: Pre-Kindergarten |
School : St. Mary’s School |
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Topic/Subject Area: Colors |
Address: 2 Powers St., Canton N.Y. 13617 |
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Email: proulxtf@northnet.org |
Phone/Fax: 1-315-386-3572 |
This learning unit is designed to teach very young children, aged 3 and 4, to recognize, sort, and mix colors . It is an investigative unit. The time frame is 2 weeks.
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Declarative |
Procedural |
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Identify red, yellow, and blue (primary colors). |
Sort objects by colors. |
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Identify orange, green, and purple (secondary colors). |
Mix 2 primary colors to create a secondary color. |
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Identify black, brown, white, gray, and pink. |
Design a drawing using specified colors. |
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What is your favorite color ? What objects in our world are created in that special color ?
CONNECTIONS TO NYS LEARNING STANDARDS
List Standard # and Key
Idea #: Write out related Performance Indicator(s) or Benchmark(s)
Standard : # 3 Mathematics Elementary Level
Key Idea : # 1 Mathematical Reasoning
Performance Indicator: 1A Use models, facts and relationships to draw conclusions about mathematics and explain their reasoning.
Explore likenesses and differences ( color, size, shape).
The students will participate in a color game by listening to and following directions as described in Hap Palmer’s song entitled "Color Song Game".
The students will listen to the stories entitiled Harold and The Purple Crayon, The Big Orange Splot, and Clifford the Big Red Dog.
LEARNING
EXPERIENCES
In chronological order including acquisition
experiences and extending/refining
experiences for all stated declarative
and procedural knowledge.
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Acquistion Experiences |
Refine and Extend Knowledge |
Meaningful Use Task |
1. Working with a partner, use a simple attribute web to state a color and draw objects of that color. |
1. In pairs, students will create clues for the rest of the class to determine a specific color. |
1. Play "Human Treasure Hunt", in which the students locate someone wearing a certain color. |
2. Using clay, students will create objects of a specified color. |
2. Sort buttons or blocks by color. |
2. Graph objects by color. |
3. Students will play a game where they have to work with a partner to locate all of the objects in the center of the gym and bring them to the outside perimeter where the corresponding sign is. |
3. Mix primary color finger paints to create secondary colors, plus brown. |
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4. Dictate a color poem, as directed by the teacher. |
CULMINATING PERFORMANCE
Include rubric(s)
The students will use colored water to identify the colors red, yellow, and blue. Then the students will mix samples of the colored water to create orange, purple, and green. They will also try to create black or brown.
RUBRIC
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4 Points |
3 Points |
2 Points |
1 Point |
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Colors Identified |
Identifies all 11 |
Identifies 9 – 10 |
Identifies 6 - 8 |
Identifies 0 - 5 |
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None
2 Weeks
The students will use the program entitled Kid Pix by Broderbund Software to create colorful drawings and print them out.