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🎨 3rd Grade · ArtVA:Re8.1Unit 2: Color theory & painting

Complementary colors

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🎯 Objective: Students use complements for contrast.

Lesson outline

  1. Find complements.
  2. Paint.
  3. Discuss.
  4. Exit: complement of blue.

Lesson 3 of 3 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

VA:Re8.1

National Core Arts Standards — Visual Arts (grade band 3–5)

🏁 Unit goals

  • Use complementary colors, tints and shades

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

🖍️ Coloring pages🎨 Drawing ideas⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Color theory & painting”

  1. Color wheel
  2. Tints and shades
  3. Complementary colors

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