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🎨 5th Grade · ArtVA:Cr2.1Unit 2: Color theory & painting

Tints and shades

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🎯 Objective: Students mix tints and shades of one color.

Lesson outline

  1. Demo.
  2. Monochromatic painting.
  3. Share.
  4. Exit: tint vs shade.

Lesson 2 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:Cr2.1

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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