LESSON PLAN

KeyLevel:
learning
Year
7 areas/outcomes:
Date: Friday 17th

Unit : elements of art

Practice techniques and processes to enhance representation of ideas in their art making
(ACAVAM121)
Period/Lesson:
5
Topic: colour wheel
Length: 1hour
Learning Intention: Today students will be able to use the 3 primary colours to make a colour
wheel.
Success Criteria: I can paint the colour wheel using the 3 primary colours to make secondary
colours. I also know what primary colours are mixed together to make secondary colours.

LESSON STRUCTURE:
Time

Introduction (Set):

5 min

Introduce myself to the class; let the students know that I

will be their teacher for the next 4 weeks.
Introduce students to the next unit work: Elements of Art,
with today lesson being on making colour wheels also
explain to the students todays learning intention

Time

Main Content:

Teacher to hand out A3 size paper with colour wheel

template. Students are then to collect a brush, palette
45 min and water to share with a partner.
Students are to paint the first 1, 3 and 5th triangles in the
wheel using the primary colours: 1:red, 3:yellow & 5:blue.

Teaching Approaches
Students to be sitting at their
desk with their
visual diarys in
front of them.

Teaching Approaches

Teacher demonstration
Example on board for students
to refer to throughout the
lesson

Students are then to paint the secondary colours, by mixing

the primary colours together. The 2nd triangle is made by
mixing the colour in the 1st and 3rd triangle: red + yellow =
orange. Students do the same for the other secondary
colours. 4th triangle is made by 3rd and 5th triangle: yellow +
blue= green. 6th triangle is made by 5th and 1st triangle: blue Students work individual on
+ red = purple.
this task.
Once the colour wheel is completed students are to fill in
the complementary colours: complementary colours are
colours that are opposite to each other on the colour wheel
Red/green, yellow/purple, blue/orange.

Students now fill in the warm and cool colours.

Warm= red, yellow & orange. Cool= blue, green & purple.
Once students have finished with the painting of the
complementary and warm/cool colours there to write in
their visual diaries
What are the primary colours?
What are the secondary colours?
What primary colours mix together to make a secondary
colour?
Students that finish are to cut the colour wheel,
warm/cool colours and complementary colours out and
stick into their visual diaries
Time

10min

Conclusion:

Teaching Approaches

Pack up
Students to put all paper and painting on the drying rack,
with their name on their work.
Students are then to wash their brushes and palettes and
wipe down desk if dirty.
Students to wait behind their desk until the teacher is
happy with the cleaning of their area.

RESOURCES/ MATERIALS
(Include equipment required for class and/or for teacher preparation)

Colour wheel example on the board

Paint (Primary colours) teacher to prepare palettes with the 3 primary colours.
Brushes
Water
Paper
pencils
Scissors
glue

ASSESSMENT
Has the student painted a colour wheel, using the 3 primary colours?
Has the student painted the complementary colours?
Has the student painted the warm and cool colours ?
Has the student written in the visual diary what are the primary and secondary colours, and what
primary colours mix together to make a secondary colour ?

REFLECTION

FEEDBACK
Yr 7 Colourwheel
Good feeling out of prior knowledge. Kids were confident with you as their teacher.
You can do more talking with the kids, discuss the properties of primary and secondary colours they
knew what the name of them were but did they have any more knowledge on colour. Draw the colour
wheel big on the board to help you.
Demonstrate and discuss how to use the paint brush correctly.
Mix some colour to show the the quantities needed.
All students engaged with this lesson and produced good standard colourwheels.