For my activity, the level is much lower so this activity would most likely be for younger students. The activity would include students being given multiple primary colors and then mixing them with other colors to form new ones. They would be given specific colors that they need to create and then work with each other to try to make those colors. They'd learn through trial and error to find out which colors work with each other to form the colors they need to find. This activity will allow students to have hands on experience and to challenge different ideas. Which color worked with another color? Which color didn't work and why do you think it didn't work? Students can create different hypothesis as to why one color worked and other one didn't.
I think that you really explained this theory very well. Personally, I really do agree with the collaboration and problem solving aspects of it. This is one of the best ways that I learn and every single person can learn some type of skill through problem solving with their peers. It helps expand knowledge and it also helps improve basic social skills. I really like your interactive activity. You could even make it a coloring sheet and say that they have to put different colors in different areas, but make all the colors they have to use non-primary, so they have to mix them. Also, you could incorporate white so that they have to create a blue and a light blue, or a red and a pink. Overall, great idea!
ReplyDeleteI do like your integration of collaboration. However, I personally was never great at working with a group because I liked working by myself. I'm sure there are students like me who learned more out of a project without the collaboration from others, but instead working on their own! What would you do to help those types of learners? I also love your integration of Piaget's idea of hands on activity because young learners learn best that way. This is because they are still experiencing almost everything for the first time.
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