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For Educators

'A Basic Introduction to Colour Theory' ICT resource is designed to be an aid to a unit of work designed to be integral to colour theory, painting or similar units. Hopefully this is useful within your units. 

This website is designed to be a curriculum resource, to facilitate ICT learning and flipped classroom learning. There are tasks and research that students can complete at home if they are not present in class for any reason. This website is designed to communicate a basic introduction to colour theory and concepts surrounding it. You will be able to access art games and ideas to use for lessons and general information introducing colour theory. Suitable for year 7 - year 9. This is a suitable contemporary resource on a whole because it supplies students and teachers with information, cutting their research time in half. This makes it easier to compose lessons and to complete classwork on the one website. It can be used in the classroom as a link to all activities to be completed, or to supply students with more information. This resource benefits the learner by breaking down colour theory effectively in a manner that is easy to understand and supplying extra information for those who struggle with the topic. Catering for many learning styles, including visual, verbal/linguistic through auditory and videos available on the website and kinaesthetic learners through possible tasks and activities.

Rationale

  • If you know more about colour theory your paintings, architectural designs, will be more balanced and harmonious

  • Students will either expand on previous art based knowledge or learn something from this resource

  • It is important for students to study this particular unit because colour theory is something that is utilised in every aspect of art practice, if they are to continue the subject they will need this in their skill-set.

  • Colour theory is something that is continuously taught throughout the students learning years

  • Something they can expand upon in later years

  • Skills and understandings include: colour mixing, colour harmonising, understanding colour context, understanding and using the colour wheel.

  • I have presented and compiled resources as an online/digital resource including multimedia/interactive components, images and texts for ease of learning. This will aid in lesson structure and can be adapted to most year levels between year 7 to year 10.

  • This resource is created to develop student’s critical thinking through activities and practical components to understand basic colour theory and how to use it in their work.

  • Age appropriate for year levels 7 – 10.

  • I have tried to make it so that this resource cuts paper usage in half, instead of students printing notes off they can complete interactive media components referenced on the website.

  • My aim for this website-resource is for it to be able to be used within a unit of work oriented towards ‘colour’ and/or lessons with a similar theme. The outcome for this website is for students to understand colour theory and how to use it.

  • Incorporating the education resources/collection (selected works) from a museum/gallery/library (Australian/International).

student's will benefit from learning about colour theory because they will be able to mix their paints correctly after learning. Students will also benefit from this because they will gain a better understanding of 'what colour to put, and where to put it'.

Australian, Victorian AusVELs/Curriculum links

The Arts or AusVELS links

  • students will explore the art elements and principles through

  • “students work from direct observation of people/places/objects and create the illusion of space and form on a two-dimensional surface.

  • Students explore different contemporary and traditional arts forms and styles to develop understanding of the concept of style. Students apply their arts knowledge and, with guidance, an understanding of style when experimenting with, selecting and using a range of contemporary and traditional media, expand their understanding and use of a range of skills in the arts disciplines of Art (two-dimensional and three-dimensional) ”http://ausvels.vcaa.vic.edu.au/The-Arts/Curriculum#level=7

  • Students will demonstrate a range of progression points within their work and throughout the unit, ranging anywhere between 5 - 8

“Progression Point for Level 7

students will display a variety of progression points within this unit, ranging from level 5 through to 8, depending on the tasks that are set within your unit.

  • At Level 7, the work of a student progressing towards the standard at Level 8 demonstrates, for example: selection and use of art elements and principles to solve specified challenges when creating and making two- and three-dimensional art works

  • documentation of trials of ideas, media, techniques and processes in a visual diary or sketchbook

  • evaluation of the use of art elements, principles and/or conventions to develop visual solutions to given problems

Exploring and responding

General capabilities
Cross curriculum priorities
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