Teaching Sequence

Work through this resource material in the following sequence:

Step 1.

Explain to students that in this lesson they will going outside and standing or sitting in one spot to identify as many colours as they can. Before you head outside, remind students of your outdoor learning guidelines, for example:

Suggested guidelines for learning outdoors:

Always stay in sight or earshot of your teacher so they don't have to yell.
Listen to the warnings about muddy paths or low-hanging branches.
Work in pairs.
Have a clear time-frame for completing your task (the teacher can give students alerts such as "15 minutes left").
Before starting, take a moment to allow your body to transition to an outdoor setting. Consider spending one or two minutes just sitting and listening to nature or observing the nature around you.

Step 2.

Take your students outside and ask them to stand or sit in one spot, without moving (they can move their heads and turn around but should stay standing or sitting on the one spot).

Invite students to consider

How many colours can they see?
Where are these colours and what do they belong to?
Which are their favourite colours?
Do they know the names of all the colours they are looking at?
Do they know the names of all the things that the colours belong to?

Remind students to look at birds and insects, trees, flowers, the sky, the grass, any seeds or berries, and any rocks and pebbles.

Step 3.

Back inside the classroom, invite students to create an artwork of the area of the school yard that they visited that captures some of the colours that they saw in nature.

Reflection

Engage students in a class discussion around the following questions:

What did you like best about being in nature?
Which were your favourite colours?
What other interesting things did you see while you were observing the colours of nature?

Take it further

Consider repeating this activity but invite students to look for shapes and patterns instead.

Take this opportunity to reflect on your own teaching

Teacher reflection

What did you learn about your teaching today?
What worked well?
What didn't work so well?
What would you share?
Where to next?
How are you going to get there?

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