Arranging coloured tiles in hue families

DESCRIBING COLOURS:
Expanded hue families

Learn how to identify and arrange hue families

Details:

All ages
Time: 15 minutes
Learning Outcome: Recognize and arrange the vivid, muted, pale and dark variations of a colour within a hue family.
Colour Concept: Move away from associating ‘colour’ with the vivid hues only; pay more attention to variations within hue families.

Materials:

Background - Sorting Introduction
Coloured tiles Handout: CHROMO Sorting Set
or online at: https://5drealities.itch.io/colour-lit-sorting (CHROMO)
(Optional) Powerpoint with instructions on sorting hue families & characters

Instructions:

You can cut out the coloured tiles from the handout or see the Free Sort Lesson plan for instructions on using online CHROMO sorting set.

If you have done a previous exercise, go to Menu and Clear All.

Figure 1. Sort Hue Families 36 Colours selected.

From the CHROMO Challenges menu, select Sort Hue Families 36 Colours. See Figure 1. (Note: if you wish to sort without using the template, you may select Add 36 Colours instead of Sort Hue Families.) If you wish to sort a smaller set, you may choose Sort Hue Families 16 Colours.

Figure 2. Colours of the red hue family arranged in our standard configuration (vivid tile on the right, muted on the left, pale on top and dark on the bottom).

The teacher/ workshop leader demonstrates how four coloured tiles can be arranged as a hue family, and explains that the exercise is to sort the tiles into nine ‘hue families’. See Figure 2.
Students are instructed to move the rest of the diamonds to form the other eight hue families, with the vivid tile on the right, muted on the left, pale on top and dark on the bottom.

Figure 3. Tiles arranged to show the nine hue families .

Students can take a screen shot or photograph of their set of nine hue families and save it. Then post or send it to the teacher/ workshop leader for display and discussion.
The teacher/ workshop leader may then show an example of the completed set of hue families.
See Figure 3.
Note: Students can check the sort by clicking on ‘Am I Right?”. Just the tiles that are not in the right spot will pop out and they can try again.

Vocabulary:

Hue Family, Hue

Questions & observations:

Which hue families were the easiest to sort? Which were the most difficult?
Which hue family (or families) does brown belong to?
Which hue family (or families) does pink belong to?