Name: Megan Anderson and Karin Stefans Lesson Title: Color and Light Grade Level: 8th Lesson

Topic: Mixing light vs. Mixing pigments The main concept to be constructed during the lesson: Students will be able to explain the concepts of mixing light vs. mixing pigments. KUSD Standards and Benchmarks: D-6.8 The visible light from the sun is made up of a mixture of many different colors of light, even though to the eye the light look almost white. Light interacts with matter by transmission, absorption, scattering. Materials Needed: Three lamps one each: blue, red, green lightbulbs red, green, yellow, blue fingerpaint paper pencil powerpoint projector Science, Optics & You website Phase 1: Engagement What's your favorite color? Phase 2: Exploration Process skills: observing, predicting Exploration activity: Student will start by getting a sheet of instructions and paper for mixing paints. Give each student a drop of red, yellow, green and blue paint. They will follow the mixing instructions below and answer the accompanying questions. When everyone is finished student will clean up after themselves throwing away painted paper and washing hands and table, etc. Then as a class, demonstrate the mixing of light using the three sources of red, green, and blue light. Show what happens when lights are mixed different ways and what happens when different objects are placed in front of the light. Then use computer simulation to demonstrate color subtraction. Ask the following questions: Paints 1. Take a small amount of red, blue, and yellow paint. Draw three small small circles, one of each color. What are these colors called? Primary colors. 2. Now try mixing two of each of the primary colors. What colors do you create? What are these colors called? Green, orange, purple; secondary colors.

3. Try mixing all three primary colors together. What color do you make? Brown or black. 4. Try mixing green and red. What color does this make? Brown. Why does this happen? Green is made of blue and yellow, so all three primary were just mixed. Lights 1. What do you think will happen if we mix green light and red light? 2. Call up a volunteer to make a shadow. What do you see? 3. What do you think will happen if we mix green light and blue light? 4. Call up a volunteer to make a shadow. What do you see? 5. What do you think will happen if we mix red light and blue light? 6. Call up a volunteer to make a shadow. What do you see? 7. What will happen if we mix all three together? 8. Call up a volunteer to make a shadow. What do you see? Subtractive Colors http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/light/subtractive.html 1. If you have a white light and put a magenta filter over the light, what happens? Why? You see magenta because the filter prevents green light from getting through. The red and blue light gets through, and makes magenta. 2. If you have a white light and put a cyan filter over the light, what happens? Why? You see cyan because the filter prevents red light from getting through. The green and blue light gets through, and makes cyan. 3. If you have a white light and put a yellow filter over the light, what happens? Why? You see yellow because the filter prevents blue light from getting through. The red and green light gets through, and makes yellow. 4. If you put magenta and yellow filters together what color do you see? Why? You see red because the magenta filter stops the green light and the yellow filter stops the blue light, leaving only red light. 5. If you put cyan and yellow filters together what color do you see? Why? You see green because the cyan filter stops the red light and the yellow filter stops the blue light, leaving only green light. 6. If you put cyan and magenta filters together what color do you see? Why? You see blue because the cyan filter stops the red light and the magenta filter stops the green light, leaving only blue light. 7. What happens if you put all of the filters together? You get black because all of the colors of light have been filtered out. Phase 3: Explanation of the Concept Power point presentation Key question and desired answered: Q:What are the primary colors of light? A: Red, blue, green Q: What is color addition? A: Combining colors of light to see different colors.

Q: What is a secondary color of light? A: A color created by two primary colors of light. (cyan, magenta, yellow) Q: What is a pigment? A: A pigment is a material that gives a substance its color by absorbing some colors of light and reflecting others. Q: What is color subtraction? A: Color subtraction is mixing pigments together so that more colors of light are absorbed or taken away. Q: What are the primary pigments? A: yellow, cyan, magenta Phase 5: Evaluation of the Concept Reflective Assessment: Written paragraph on what the difference is between mixing of visible light and color pigments is. References and Internet Supplements http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/light/lightandcolor.html