Color and Graphing - I Love Color

This lesson is designed for younger grades. The purpose of this lesson is to teach students about color, it is also an intro to ratios, and data gathering.

 I Love Color Here is the link for the worksheets

Background Information: 

Color is important in our world. We are delighted with the colors in flowers, in a sunset, in the leaves of autumn and in the brilliant colors of a rainbow.

Color is important in nature. The colors in flowers attract bees to help in pollination, color in fruit attracts fruit-eating animals, the color in some animals helps them attract mates.

Color also serves as a means of communication. For example, a red traffic light means stop, green for go. On the map, colors indicate certain things such as: blue indicates a body of water, black a highway or road.

A red object is red because it produces, reflects, or transmits only red light. White objects produce or reflect all colors; black objects absorb all colors. 

A rainbow is a spectrum formed as white sunlight is refracted by tiny drops of water falling through the air. Each color has a different wavelength. Violet has the shortest wavelength; red has the longest wavelength. They are at opposite ends of the spectrum.

On this printout page from the link  students will fill in the colors of the rainbow. Then they will fill out the rest of the paper.

Use this printout page to create a larger scale graph on the board, then give each student a sticky note, next one by one have them come up and place their sticky note in the column of their favorite color. Once that is done, give each student this printout and have them fill it out according to what the class put on the board.

Discussion Questions:

1. What was the favorite color of the class? How do you know?

2. Why do you think that color was the favorite?

3. Which was the least favorite? How do you know?

4. How many more students liked____than___? Explain how you know this.

5. Were there any tie votes?