My trick question, each year as we discuss color, always snags about half of my students... "What two colors mix to make blue?" As they begin to answer, "BZZZZZZZZ- Wrong" I interrupt even before they finish with a second color...
Then we discuss, "What is Primary?" Primary numbers, primary school, primary sources, primary ingredients...? "Hasn't history taught us about primary elements? What two elements mix to make gold???"
I liken the primary colors to eggs, milk, and four. If you want to make cookies, you can't throw in some salad dressing and a chicken foot into a recipe that needs flour... you need to go and get some flour!
When you want blue, you have to go out and get some. Maybe grind up a rock called lapis and add it to some acrylic to get blue paint. And when you want secondary colors, you mix the primary ingredients. As noodles are made from flour and eggs, orange is made from red and yellow. When you want some sauce on those noodles, then we need to add some tertiary ingredients.
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Then we discuss, "What is Primary?" Primary numbers, primary school, primary sources, primary ingredients...? "Hasn't history taught us about primary elements? What two elements mix to make gold???"
I liken the primary colors to eggs, milk, and four. If you want to make cookies, you can't throw in some salad dressing and a chicken foot into a recipe that needs flour... you need to go and get some flour!
When you want blue, you have to go out and get some. Maybe grind up a rock called lapis and add it to some acrylic to get blue paint. And when you want secondary colors, you mix the primary ingredients. As noodles are made from flour and eggs, orange is made from red and yellow. When you want some sauce on those noodles, then we need to add some tertiary ingredients.
If you think this discussion would be helpful for your own students, and you'd like a free high resolution version of the above illustration, head over to www.FirehousePublications.com and their free stuff page.
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