Light & Color Education Games
Light dispels darkness and color represents life. Students exploring the world of light and color will discover new principles and learn to mix and depict colors. Light and color are vital visual parts of our everyday life. Asking questions, playing games and performing experiments will teach students about the world around them.
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Painting
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Painting can teach students about the blending of color using light and dark. Provide a pallet for each student. Provide a list of colors for them to mix. Instruct them to create different shades of specific colors using black and white. Have them describe the shades and colors they created through mixing. Explain this principle in terms of the natural world with color and light.
Prisms
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Provide each student with a prism or crystal. Using natural sunlight or direct light from a flashlight or similar object, shine the light through the prisms so the light projects on a blank wall. Allow students to experiment and play with angles and different light mediums. Then have students explain what they see occurring and create a picture using the colors they see emitted from the prism.
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Flashlights
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In your classroom, set up several flashlights so they point at a blank white wall, screen or butcher paper. Turn the overhead lights off and show students the clarity of white light in darkness. Have students cut out different colors of cellophane paper and take turns covering the flashlights. Discuss how light bends to reflect the color it passes through. Students will benefit from playing with color and light through hands-on interaction.
Shadow Game
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Take your class out early in the morning and find a place where the sun shines and creates silhouettes on the sidewalk. Have students take turns tracing one another's shadows. Come back out in the afternoon. Have students stand in the same place and have another student trace their shadows again. They should be able to see a change in the length of their shadow.
Talk about the effects of light and how it creates a darker silhouette when it hits a solid object. Students will benefit from interaction with one another, playing with shadow and light, and being in a natural environment outside the classroom.
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References
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