best laid plans
A ”starter” with my first years. The question went “Choose three of the colours listed and write down any words that you associate with that colour”. Three minutes.
They all completed this, I was then going to bring it together on the board using a mindmap. The rest of the lesson was to complete ‘mounting’ our wee freehand sketches of iPods.
Well I did bring it together, although this took 40 minutes. I hadn’t planned this of course, but what I thought would be a wee starter turned out to be the most diverse and rich conversation about colour theory. I didn’t think 1st years would manage 40 mins of whole class discuss, but they did. Idea after idea. Some were met with “whit?” but most were met with, “ahh”. I will post up their end result (which was huge) and you can explore the fascinating exploration 12 and 13 year olds had on just what colour can mean to them.
For me, once they had left I had a huge grin on my face as I had, well… managed to do my job!
September 18th, 2007 at 5:15 pm
That’s absolutely fantastic! My first years have been thinking about similar things – advancing and receding colours. Is there a way you could share the notes? I’d love to share them with my 1st years on Thursday…
I also spent 40 minutes doing something that should only have taken 10 minutes today, but not so positive. See you tomorrow!
September 21st, 2007 at 8:02 am
!ah, sorry Stuart with my slow reply. I will get them up ASAP, I am still thinking about the dept blog. im thinking of using WPMU so that we can have blogs per subject area but not sure yet.
if i dont put it up on the dept blog i will post it up here once i scan it in