One of our ongoing projects this semester is focusing on color mixing and the different colors we can make starting with the primary colors. The students started exploring with yellow and blue paint. They noticed when
they mixed blue and yellow paint together, they made the color green. The students were excited to see how the colors changed as they mixed them together. They started to see the different shades of green as they mixed more blue and less yellow, or more yellow less blue. They concluded “After mixing blue and yellow to make green, add more blue to make teal.”
Hadi
explores mixing yellow and blue together. “Blue and yellow make green.”
Teacher: “I noticed you added more yellow than blue onto your paper, what
happens when you add more yellow to green? Hadi: “It made it a lighter green.”
Jenna:
Explored with the blue and yellow paint. She put a lot of blue on her paper and
a little yellow on the side making a light green color.
Max
first mixed yellow and blue to make green. Then he continued adding more
yellow to make a lighter green. After having made the color green, he added more blue in different spots to making the color teal.
The students will continue to explore color mixing with all the primary colors to make secondary colors. Identifying different shades/tones will be introduced as the students continue to explore color mixing with white and black.
~Mariam Albachachy
