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TEKS Objective

The student will classify objects by observable properties of the materials from which they are made such as larger and smaller, heavier and lighter, shape, color, and texture.

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Essential Understanding

The student knows that objects have properties and patterns.

Science Background

Breaking the Code of Color, How Do We See Colors? Howard Hughes Medical Institute (website) - Detailed information from the HHMI Seeing, Hearing and Smelling the World report.

Breaking the Code of Color, How Do We See Colors?
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, www.hhmi.org

Our Sense of Sight, Part 3, Color Vision: Neuroscience for Kids (website) - Provides guidance about how students can investigate color vision, and also plan and conduct their own experiments.

Our Sense of Sight,  Color Vision
Neuroscience for Kids, www.faculty.washington.edu

Signature Lesson

Mix Color for Rainbow Stew: Education.com (website) - Students investigate which primary colors mix together to make secondary colors.

Mix Color for Rainbow Stew
by Latrenda Knighten, Education.com

Supporting Lessons

Afterimage: PBS Kids (PDF) - Students investigate the phenomenon of afterimage as one color seems to change to another.

Afterimage
PBS Kids, pbskids.org

Elaboration Lessons and Extensions

Five Senses: SEDL (PDF) - Students use their five senses to observe and record the physical properties of matter, including color.

Five Senses
SEDL, www.sedl.org

Assessment Ideas

Give each student a bag containing four objects that are blue (e.g., crayon, linking cube, pencil, toy car, etc.), four green objects, four red objects, four purple objects, four yellow objects and four orange objects. Have students identify the color of each object and sort items into different groups by color.

Literature Connections

Babar’s Book of Color. De Brunhoff, Laurent (ISBN-13: 9781419703393)

Richard Scarry’s Colors. Scarry, Richard (ISBN-13: 9781402793776)

Mixing Colors. Rigby, Isabel (ISBN-13: 9780763560584)

Related Science TEKS

(1.2A) Ask Questions
The student is expected to ask questions about organisms, objects, and events observed in the natural world.

(1.2B) Plan and Conduct Descriptive Investigations
The student is expected to plan and conduct simple descriptive investigations such as ways objects move.

(1.2C) Collect Data
The student is expected to collect data and make observations using simple equipment such as hand lenses, primary balances, and non-standard measurement tools.

(1.2D) Record and Organize Data & Observations
The student is expected to record and organize data and observations using pictures, numbers, and words.

(1.2E) Communicate Observations
The student is expected to communicate observations with others about simple descriptive investigations.

(1.4A) Tools for Collecting Information
The student is expected to collect information using tools, including computers, hand lenses, primary balances, cups, bowls, magnets, collecting nets, and notebooks; timing devices, including clocks and timers; non-standard measuring items such as paper clips and clothespins; weather instruments such as demonstration thermometers and wind socks; and materials to support observations of habitats of organisms such as terrariums and aquariums.

Related Math TEKS

1.9A    The student is expected to collect and sort data.

1.9B     The student is expected to use organized data to construct real object graphs, picture graphs, and bar-type graphs.

1.11C   The student is expected to select or develop an appropriate problem-solving plan or strategy including drawing a picture, looking for a pattern, systematic guessing and checking, or acting it out in order to solve a problem.

1.11D  The student is expected to use tools such as real objects, manipulatives, and technology to solve problems.

1.12A The student is expected to explain and record observations using objects, words, pictures, numbers, and technology.

Additional Resources

The Effective Detective: PBS Kids (website) - An interactive game in which students use properties to describe characters from the “Arthur” storybook series.

The Effective Detective
PBS Kids, www.pbskids.org

Color Labeling: Crickweb (website) - Students match color names with corresponding pictures.

Color Labeling
Crickweb, www.crickweb.co.uk

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