Visual Arts Lesson For Dixie MVCDC B Natalie Murray Mixtures and Colors

Visual Arts Lesson For Dixie MVCDC B
Natalie Murray
Mixtures and Colors
Name: Natalie Murray
Date: 2/29/2016
Lesson Title: Elephant Toothpaste

Grade Level: Preschool
Circle one:
ECE
PKSN
Standard(s)/Guideline(s):
Physical Health and Motor B. STRAND: Motor Development: Topic: Small Muscle: 2. Coordinates use of hands/fingers/wrist to perform tasks requiring precise
movement
Approaches to Learning STRAND: Creativity, Topic: Expression of Ideas and Feelings through the Arts 4. Expresses self, experiences, knowledge through the
arts.
Language and Literacy Development STRAND: Listening and Speaking Topic: Expressive Language 7. Uses language to share observations
Pre-Assessment of current knowledge: Students will build off of previous lessons and incorporate their understanding of primary and secondary
colors as well as mixtures to focus on this lesson. Teacher will have a check sheet filled out to evaluate the students understanding and build on the
goal of the lessons based on where the previous lessons left the students.
Instructional Objectives (1-2)
Assessment of Student Learning
Learning Experiences
One/Two assessed Instructional objectives:

The students will be able to
- Students will be able to identify the
primary colors through the observing the
eruption.
- Students will be able to create
secondary colors through the primary
colors given based on their observations.
Identify Evidence:
(What will you collect or record as data to
demonstrate students have met your
objective(s) and skill?)
- Teacher will use an
assessment check sheet to evaluate
the students understanding and ability
to describe a difference between
primary and secondary colors.
- Teacher will ask students about
the mixing of the colors after the
explosion and share their observations
and record their responses.
- Teacher will evaluate the
students artwork to see what colors
were incorporated into their work.
Academic Language:
hydrogen peroxide
explosion/eruption
dish soap
water
food coloring
primary colors
secondary colors
One Assessed Developmental Skill:

- Students will use fine motor skills
to pinch the food coloring bottle and let out
a few drops.
Safety Considerations:
-hydrogen peroxide
-eye protection of students
Authentic Materials:
6 empty plastic water bottles
3 tsps dish soap
3 cups hydrogen peroxide
3 tsp of yeast
1 cup of warm water
2 aluminum roasting pans
red, yellow, blue markers

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Program Monitoring:
(How will you aggregate or compile your
evidence into a class or group?)
- I will compile the evidence by
listening to the students during the
explosion and then by asking questions
to continue the conversation afterwards
to fill out my assessment check sheet
and through using their artwork and
seeing which colors they used and
decided to make based off of the
explosion experiment.
- I will also talk to the students
during free time and ask them to
explain what we did during our lesson
time to fill in their responses about their
observations and what they
understood.
paper
Adult Roles:
Set up materials and give children safety goggles.
Have aluminum pan under water bottles.
Clear area
Present ideas to students and ask them to be
observant for their discussion later.
Create eruption
Clean up.
Check off the assessment sheet and evaluate the
students.
Evaluate the students incorporation of the activity into
the colors in their art work.
Procedures:
1. Teacher will set up the materials of the
bottle up until the point of the explosion to limit
wait time for students.
2. Students will be divided into groups of
5-7 depending on class size that day.
3. Teacher will ask questions about
primary and secondary colors that they have
been talking about.
4. Students will choose a color of food
coloring to add to a bottle.
5. Teacher will add final materials to
water bottles and ask students to observe the
colors being added.
6. The students will then be asked to tell
the teacher the difference of the colors after
the explosion.
7. Student will apply knowledge from
their previous lessons to talk about primary
colors and secondary colors they saw.
8. Students will color with the primary
color markers and use them to show what
happened with the explosion to make new

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Mixtures and Colors
colors.
Resources & References:
http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/lab/experiments/elephants-toothpaste-kid-version/
Adapatations/Modifications:
For students with special needs, the teacher could provide them with a different medium to create their artwork from. Another adult could sit with them and
provide services that they would need help with for example with pinching the food coloring or asking them questions to prompt their thinking for making
observations.
Reflection: ( What have you learned about your students? How will this inform future instruction?
For this activity, I am excited to see how the eruption will spark the students interests in the colors and what it will add to their knowledge as learners. I
think it is a really fun activity to incorporating mixing and colors in a nontraditional ways and to work with students in a way they do not typically get to work.
I want our students to incorporate the vocabulary we have given them in our previous lessons like primary colors, red, yellow, blue, secondary colors,
orange, green, purple, predict, observe, and more to express themselves while they observe as a group and share individually. I also would think it was
great if they made connections to our past interactions with colors and the lessons we did including the paper towel rainbow or their water color dropper art
work.
As I think about implementing this lesson in a few weeks, I would like to see what works best and what parts really keep the students interest most. I want
to see all of my planning first hand and hope it works as I anticipate it to.

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Mixtures and Colors
Name
Student 1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
Identifies the Primary

Colors in our activity.
Identifies Primary and Secondary

colors in their own Artwork.
Makes connection between colors

in activity and their artwork.
Comments/Questions/Responses

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Lesson Title: Elephant Toothpaste

Instructional Objectives (1-2)

Assessment of Student Learning

One/Two assessed Instructional objectives:

One Assessed Developmental Skill: