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Lesson 2

Colors (Los Colores)

Description of lesson: This cross-curricular (Spanish, science, and art) lesson teaches

students the names of colors and how to create secondary colors from primary colors.

Goal: To teach students the names of colors and introduce them to primary and secondary

colors

Objective: Students will be able to: 1) identify primary colors: red, blue, yellow; and secondary
colors: green, orange, purple; 2) create secondary colors from primary colors

Materials: Balloon image (provided) [Note: Balloon images will need to be copied or traced

on to a transparency. Three additional balloon images will need to be copied onto paper and

colored red, blue, and yellow.]; transparencies; red, blue, and yellow markers (vis-à-vis or
permanent)

Vocabulary: Primary colors (colores primarios), secondary colors (colores secundarios), red

(rojo), blue (azul), yellow (amarillo), green (verde), purple (morado), orange (anaranjado), .
brown (café, alternative: marrón), white (blanco), black (negro), pink (rosado), gray (gris)d
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“Look at all the balloons. What colors do we see?” (Miren todos los globos. ¿Qué colores

vemos?) Show students the three red, blue, and yellow balloons. Have students identify the
red, blue, and yellow balloons by asking them to name the colors of the balloons. Let them

know that these colors are called primary colors (colores primarios).

Teacher Input: “Today we are going to make different colored balloons using our primary
colors.” (Hoy vamos a hacer globos de diferentes colores usando nuestros colores primarios.)

Provide each student with a non-colored balloon on a transparency. Have students identify the

colors of the markers. Have each student color a balloon using one of the three primary colors.

[Note: For very young children, use pre-colored balloons.]

Guided Practice:

• Once balloons are colored, say: “Let’s take the blue balloon and the yellow balloon. What d.
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• Say, “Green is a secondary color. What other colors can we create from our primaryC.hist
colors?” (Verde es un color secundario. ¿Qué otros colores podemos crear de los colores zLLlefrit

primarios?)

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