Lincoln-Way Community High School
UBD Unit Plan
Title: Color Basics
Time Frame: 4 Weeks
Stage 1: Desired Results
Enduring Understandings
♦ “Students will understand how the use of color influences moods, feelings, and space of a room.”
Essential Questions
Learning Objectives
How does color create different mood?
How do primary colors produce other colors on the
color wheel?
How does intensity and value effect various hues?
What are the characteristics of different color schemes?
Analyze the ways in which color creates moods.
Explain how primary colors are used to produce other
colors on the color wheel.
Describe the effects of intensity and value on various
hues.
Identify the characteristics of different types of color
schemes.
Stage 2: Assessment Evidence
Performance Tasks
Portfolio:
Indentifying Color in Action (Warm, Cool, Monochromatic, Analogous, Complimentary, Neutral,
Primary Triadic Color Schemes)
Color Medium Portfolio – using different mediums (Colored Pencil, Crayon, Markers, Watercolors)
Creative Color Wheel Project
Self-Assessments
Bellringers
Unit Questions
Portfolio Reflection (Medium of Choice)
Hook Discussion, Example:
List 10 of your favorite personal belongings.
Then have students create another column and
write the color of each of those items. Think,
Pair, Share responses to the moods/feelings
created by these colors.
Checking for Understanding, Example:
Brainstorm popular/trendy color schemes. Have
students find 2 examples of these color
schemes. Explain how long they think these
examples will be popular and why.
Psychological Effects of Color Worksheet and
Discussion
Color Review Bingo
Other Evidence, Summarized
Unit Test
Unit Study Guide
Teacher Rubric for Identifying Color in Action
Portfolio
Teacher Rubric for Color Medium Portfolio
Creative Color Wheel Checklist
Stage 3: Learning Activities
Notes
Psychological Effects of Color
Magic of Color
Article and Questions: 10 Color Basics
Article and Questions: Corrective Use of Colors
Unit Vocabulary (Accented Neutral, Analogous, Color Scheme, Complementary, Hue, Intensity,
Monochromatic, Pigments, Shade, Slit-Complementary, Tint, Triadic, Value)
Intensity Scale Project
Value Scale Chart
Putting Color Schemes to Work Activity
How Coloring Act on Walls Activity
Video: Color Splash
Video: Get Color
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Illinois Learning Standards
1.A.4a Expand knowledge of word origins and derivations and use idioms, analogies, metaphors and similes to
extend vocabulary development (vocabulary)
1.C.5c Critically evaluate information from multiple sources (article reviews)
3.A.5 Produce grammatically correct documents using standard manuscript specifications for a variety of purposes
and audiences (essays)
4.B.5b Use speaking skills to participate in and lead group discussions; analyze the effectiveness of the spoken
interactions based upon the ability of the group to achieve its goals.
25.A.4 Analyze and evaluate the effective use of elements, principles and expressive qualities in a
composition/performance in dance, drama, music and visual arts.
26.A.4e Visual Arts: Analyze and evaluate how tools/technologies and processes combine to convey meaning.
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