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Teacher: Miss Enos Date: 1/18/17
Subject: Art Grade Level: 4 & 5
Title of Lesson: Color Wheel Collage Lesson Length: 1 Day
Overview of the Lesson
Lesson Summary:
In this lesson, the students will be working collaboratively to create a large
color wheel collage using scraps of magazines.
Massachusetts Framework Standards:
2.1 Identify primary and secondary colors and gradations of black, white and
gray in the environment and artwork
Lesson Objectives:
Students will be able to work together to create a large color wheel using
scraps from magazines.
Materials/Equipment to be Used in Teaching the Lesson:
- Color wheel template
- Glue
- Magazines
- Scissors
- Paper plates
- Sticky notes
Enduring Understandings:
Big Ideas:
- The students will understand that sometimes working together is better
than working alone.
- The students will understand the placements of the primary and
secondary colors on the color wheel.
Concepts:
- Primary and secondary colors
Essential Questions:
- What are some benefits to working together as opposed to working
alone?
- How can you use this experience of working collaboratively in other
aspects of school or your life?
Content
Factual Content:
- Primary colors
- Secondary colors
Vocabulary:
Tier 1:
Color
Tier 2:
Primary, secondary
Tier 3:
Collaborative
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Critical Thinking Skills (Reading, Writing, Speech, Listening)
The students have to think critically together to be able to determine the order
of the color wheel. The students also have to analyze the color or colors in the
magazines in order to collect the correct color for the collage.

Assessments (Performance Tasks/Tests/Quizzes Formative/Summative,

Informal/Formal)
The students will work collaboratively to create a large color wheel
demonstrating their understanding and knowledge of the color wheel.

Action/Instructional Procedures
Day 1
o Anticipatory Set: (hook) 5 minutes
The teacher will give each table with a color wheel a sticky note stating
the colors on the color wheel.
The students must take a few minutes as a group to try and arrange the
colors in the correct order on the color wheel template.
The teacher will then reveal a color wheel and will go over it with the
class.
The students will see if their group got it correct. If not, make the
necessary changes.
Teacher will then go over the meaning of working collaboratively and that
sometimes you get the behind the scenes job and sometimes you get the
job where you get to put everything together. They are both extremely
important jobs and everyone will get a chance to do both.
o Color Wheel: - 30 minutes
For every color wheel station, there will be a cutting station.
The students at the cutting stations will be flipping through magazines to
find and cut out pieces with each color. They will hand these pieces off to
the wheel stations.
Students at the wheel stations will take the pieces from the cutting station
and paste them into the correct section of the color wheel template until
the entire template is covered.
Halfway through the class, they will switch. Those at the cutting stations
will move to the wheel stations and those at the wheel stations will move
to the cutting stations.
If the class does not finish covering the template, the next class will
continue where they left off.
o Closure: - 5 minutes
Simon Says:
The teacher will play a small game of Simon says with the students
o Example: Simon says if youre at a table that is a primary
color, squat down. Simon says if youre at the table that is
blues complementary color, raise your hand and tell me
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some benefits of working together as opposed to working
alone.
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Intro:
o Today we are going to be working on collaborative projects
o Raising your hands, who can tell me what collaborative means
o Collaborative means working together to accomplish a goal or create
something
o When working with other people not everybody can work on the same
thing at the same time, so people have different jobs
o Today there are two different jobs
The cutting station
The pasting station
o They are both extremely important jobs because without the other
they wouldnt be able to get done.
Hook:
o On each table with a wheel there are a set of sticky notes with the
primary and secondary colors written on them.
o Working together, take a few minutes to try and figure out where on
the color wheel these colors are supposed to be placed.
o When doing this keep in mind complementary colors and their
positions on the color wheel.