Search the Internet - Assignment 4

Title of Activity: Introduction to Colour

Reference Section:
Sanford. (2007). Carmine’s Introduction to Color. Science. Retrieved Oct. 02, 2009, from http://www.alifetimeofcolor.com/play/color1/color1.html

Grade Level: 1

Subject: Science
Brief Description of Activity:
This site is created as a lesson in itself with online interactive activities within the lesson. It is laid out as rhyming text (to engage students and help them learn about colour). After each main component of the lesson is outlined, the site has an interactive activity for students to complete. In a classroom students (with the help of a teacher or assistant), will navigate through “Carmine’s Introduction to Color,” and participate in the online games included within this site: http://www.alifetimeofcolor.com/play/color1/color1.html

General Learner Outcome:
• Identify and evaluate methods for creating colour and for applying colours to different materials.

Specific Learner Outcomes:
• Compare and contrast colours, using terms such as lighter than, darker than, more blue, brighter than.
• Order a group of coloured objects, based on a given colour criterion.
• Predict and describe changes in colour that result from the mixing of primary colours and from mixing a primary colour with white or with black.
• Create a colour that matches a given sample, by mixing the appropriate amounts of two primary colours.

ICT Outcomes:

C.7.1.3 draw conclusions from organized information

F.3.1.1 demonstrate courtesy and follow classroom procedures when making appropriate use of computer technologies

P.5.1.2 access hyper linked sites on an intranet or the Internet

Rationale for Computer Integration:
Computers have been integrated into this assignment to allow students to learn about colour in a visual and interactive way. It allows students to learn new information, and immediately test that knowledge through fun activities. A lot of activities when teaching colour at this level involve arts and crafts. While these methods are also fun, interactive, and have many advantages, they also have some downsides (needing craft supplies require a lot of time). In using this site as a base lesson and a place to involve students in follow up activities, the lesson a teacher is able to provide is not limited by craft supplies or time constraints (clean up of supplies), and allows a student to focus on the real lesson (the science of colour) rather than being distracted by crafts. The site is set up in a user friendly way that would also make it easy to integrate as a smart board activity if computers (and helpers) are limited.