Goals:
- To review and build on student’s knowledge of primary and secondary colors.
- To have students learn the meaning of value and be mindful of the pressure and force with which they color and how the results vary.
Objectives:
- Each student will create a rainbow of three values, dark, medium and light.
- Collaboratively, students will piece together a rainbow mural that fades from dark to light.
Intended Audience: 3rd Grade
New York Learning Standards Addressed:
- Students will make works of art that explore different kinds of subject matter, topics, themes.
- Students will know and use a variety of visual arts materials, techniques, and processes.
Materials:
White copy paper
Crayons
Scissors
Gluesticks
Large poster board
Pre-requisite Knowledge:
Students should be familiar with primary and secondary colors.
Procedure:
- Teacher will break down rainbow and review primary and secondary colors.
- Teacher will define value and and open discussion for how value is created.
- Teacher will introduce rainbow mural project.
- Each student will color a page, one row for each of the rainbow colors.
- The row will have a dark, medium and light section. Teacher will ask students to pay attention to the amount of pressure they put.
- Students will cut out 18 sections from their sheet of paper.
- Students will assemble their rainbow pieces to help achieve a rainbow that reflects a rainbow that fades from dark to light. As they assemble they may notice the difference between one another’s darks, mediums and lights.
Assessment:
As students assemble rainbow mural teacher will ask them questions relating to value to assess comprehension, and to see if this exercise will helps them create variation in future art-making.
