Today we explored the blurred line between art and science as we became colour designers. After looking at the amazing variety of colours on a paint store website, we determined that each hue on the colour wheel can be blended with each other and mixed with white and black to create endless variations. When examining the blue palette, we saw dark blues, light blues, greeny-blues, purply-blues, grey blues....and what was better were the creative names each of these colours had...Sea Breeze, Saphire Dream, Summer Sky and more.
Being colour designers, we need to use all of our scientist behaviours, especially our predicting and working carefully skills. To create the harmonious colours, we looked at our colour wheel at colours that are adjacent to each other. These "colour wheel neighbours" are called Analogous colors.
Each student picked a dominant colour and used black, white and its neighbours to experiment, test and design a family of colours. We heard lots of questioning during this activity:
"What if I had white and black?"
"How can I make it lighter?'
"Why did it turn green?"
"I need to figure of what to add to make it like an emerald!"
"What happens if I....?
Next week, the student will judge which are their best colours and will name them.
We quickly talked about ways to TRANSLATE a simple pattern. (Translate, made the same pattern core with different attributes). We determined that AB patterns are the simplest patterns but one of the most common! (left-right of walking, windshield wipers wiping, nodding yes, shaking no...AB patterns are everywhere). We took a single manipluative, the toothpick, to explore ways to make this pattern in different ways. Children were creative thinking of ways to "change" a toothpick so it could be represented as both the A and B in this pattern.
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