Color
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.
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
- Extensions
- Assessment Ideas
- Literature Connections
- Related
TEKS - Additional Resources
Supporting Lessons
Afterimage: PBS Kids (PDF) - Students investigate the phenomenon of afterimage as one color seems to change to another.
Elaboration Lessons and Extensions
Five Senses: SEDL (PDF) - Students use their five senses to observe and record the physical properties of matter, including color.
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)
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.
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