Central Idea:
Learning about colours helps build awareness of colours in nature
Lines of Inquiry
Colour mixing (change)
Colours in nature (connection)
People have often represented nature through the colourful, visual arts
During formative week the teachers are collecting the children's prior knowledge.
I made an interesting observation today when I asked "Where do you find colour in nature?"
It soon became evident that not everyone was familiar with the word nature and further discussion prompted the question "Are people a part of nature?"
I told the children we could find out the answer and Bela suggested "Ya, look on the internet."
So I did and found this definition of nature . . .
the phenomena of the physical world collectively, including
plants, animals, the landscape, and other features and products of the
earth, as opposed to humans or human creations.
So people are not nature.
The children responded to the video we watched by noticing that
some things in nature come in more than one colour.
The children made a memory matching game in which they drew something from nature in one colour and then matched it to the same colour card. When Chloe drew a pink pony the children noticed that not everything in nature comes in all colours
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