Colour Inquiry

Our Wonder Wall is another way to encourage real writing. It is located near our Science and Discovery center. The children are encouraged to write down their wonderings. This is where many of our inquiries come from.

 

 

Our investigation of colour was sparked from comments and wonderings made by students.

 

We noticed that many of the wonderings on the Wonder Wall were about colour. For example, L.F wanted to know where colours came from.

 

We then overheard M.D say, "I know what colour you get when you mix all the colours together. You get black."

 

And so our inquiry into colour began......

 

We observed vibrant colours, both primary and secondary and created our own representations.

 

We conducted some colour experiments. First we painted pictures of the plain white daisies. Then we made predictions of what would happen when we added different colours of food colouring to the water. We painted pictures of what we discovered.

 

 

We experimented with colour mixing with goop and food colouring. We placed a piece of paper in the goop which lifted the goop designs onto the paper.

 

 

 

Some of the students were reading a book of different colour experiments. One experiment was about how to make colour spinners. When spun, the colours would mix together to show new colours. The students asked if they could make their own. We helped them gather the materials they would need and they set to work.

After discussing the primary colours, the children engaged in some colour mixing experiments. They recorded their results by writing colour sentences (red + blue = purple). They used their mixed colours to do some finger painting.

 

 

 

We cut up the finger paintings and created a colour wheel mosaic of primary and secondary colours.

 

 

In the middle we put all the colours mixed together. What we found: Mixing all the colours together made a purplish-brown!