EQUIPMENT

Paper and pencil for each student.

Coloured pens or pencils.

DESCRIPTION

Initially, students work individually.

Each student thinks of a colour and writes it down.  If they have coloured pencils, crayons or felt-tip pens, students can draw a coloured “blob”.  (The teacher could allocate a specific colour if this is to lead on to a further activity.)

Without talking to anyone else, students write their answers to the following questions.  (Students do not need to worry about spellings - nobody else needs to read what they have written.)

• Think of your chosen colour.  How does it make you feel?

• Think of your chosen colour.  What food does it like to eat?

• Think of your chosen colour.  What animal would it be?

• Think of your chosen colour.  What would its name be? (Alan?, Bethany?, Carl?)

• Think of your chosen colour.  What games or sport does it like to play?

• Think of your chosen colour.  What is its favourite song?

In groups of 3 or 4, students now share their ideas.  With the help of the group, each student chooses one of their answers to tell to the whole class.

BEFORE

None

AFTER

Students could use their "colour lists" as the basis for a poem or a piece of artwork.

LOGICAL

MUSICAL

INTRA-PERS.

PHYSICAL

LINGUISTIC

INTER-PERS.

NATURALIST

VISUAL