Learning About Colour
We are learning about
colour. After doing a few activities and learning about primary and secondary
colours we started brainstorming all the questions we have about colours. Then our teachers sorted our questions into
categories so that we could decide what we should try to learn next. Here are
the categories we have:
1.
History of colour.
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How did
colours get their names?
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How did
people first make colours?
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Who
discovered colours?
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Why do
colours exist?
·
Could new
colours be invented?
·
Who
discovered the primary, secondary, and tertiary colours?
·
Why are
colours important?
·
Who
invented crayons?
2.
Making colours.
·
Can you
make dark colours out of light colours?
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How do you
make the primary colours?
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What type
of colour is brown?
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What comes
after tertiary colours?
·
Are there
“forthiary” colours?
·
How many
colours are there?
3.
Black and white.
·
What makes
white?
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Is white a
colour?
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Can you
make colours out of black?
·
How do you
make black?
·
Does mixing
the primary colours make black?
·
How are
different shades made?
4.
Colours in nature.
·
Why are
there so many colours?
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Why can’t
flowers be black?
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Why is food
so many colours?
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How do
things get their colour? Eg. Why are leaves green? Why is the sky blue?
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Is there
any place that doesn’t have colour?
·
How do they
make coloured plastic?
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How to
rainbows happen?
5.
Seeing colour.
·
How does
information about colour get to your brain?
·
Do animals
see colour the same way we do?
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Why is
green so bright?
6.
Feelings from colours
·
How would
people feel without colours?
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Why do we
use colours?
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What are
cool colours?
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What are
warm colours?
·
Can colours
make people feel mad?
·
Can colours
make people feel happy?
Our helper tomorrow is: Atiksh
We are still looking for 2 volunteers to join us on Friday. We will be leaving the school just before 9:00.
