Arranging coloured tiles in hue sequence
EYE-OPENER EXERCISE
Details:
Ages: 5-99 ***NOT***
Time: 10 minutes
Learning Outcomes: 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:
Coloured tiles: physical, or online at: https://5drealities.itch.io/colour-lit-sorting (CHROMO)
Instructions:
See Free Sort Lesson plan for instructions on using online CHROMO sorting set.
If you have done a previous sorting exercise, go to Menu and Clear All.
Select the circle shape and click on Add Vivid Colours. See Figure 1.
Move the tiles and arrange them in a circle with yellow at the top. The tiles should be spaced quite far apart and be arranged in the order of the spectrum with yellow followed by orange and red in a clockwise direction. See Figure 2.
Figure 1. Vivid coloured tiles in random order.
Figure 2. Vivid coloured tiles arranged in a circle
Click on Menu and then click on Add Dark Colours. See Figure 3.
Move the dark tiles so that they form another circle inside the circle of vivid tiles. Each dark colour should be next to the vivid colour from the same hue family. See Figure 4.
Figure 3. Dark coloured tiles added to the screen
Figure 4. Dark coloured tiles moved to form a ring within the circle of vivid tiles
Repeat this process with the pale and then the muted coloured tiles, going back to the Menu and clicking on Add Pale Colours and then Add Muted Colours. See Figure 5.
Arrange each set outside the vivid coloured tiles so that colours from the same hue family are in radiating lines. See Figure 6.
Figure 5. Pale and muted coloured tiles added to the screen.
Figure 6. Coloured tiles arranged so that colours from the same hue families are in lines radiating from the centre.
Questions & observations:
**something on why this is an important exercise to do
