When you see the color green...what do you think of? What about blue? Red? Some people may just see a color and think nothing else about. Some people, however, may look into this color and see much more. For example, many people when they see the color green think about money, or grass in the summer; when you see the color blue you might think oceans, water or the sky. And red might represent fire or warmth. This is something that I noticed but I never really stopped and thought about until learning about visual literacy in this class. You can make people feel a certain way just by the colors that you present to them. If you want your students to be calm, you can use blue to help mellow them out and prevent them from going bonkers in your class. Or if you like that type of atmosphere and want you kids to be up beat and wild, you can surround them with oranges and reds making them more energetic.
Also what you present to your class visually can determine what it is you think about. If you are teaching about money to a younger class and you are using powerpoint, you could make your slides green, the color of money, to get them more in-tuned to the lesson. Or when you teach them about oceans, use blue in your presentation and they will naturally think oceans because the blue is shown.
These are things that you may not normally think about as being important but it is something that really is effective and has been proven that people do think of certain things when presented with a color. Therefore, use this to your advantage and psychologically engage your students into your lesson by using colors as a hook for them.
What do people think of when they see a color??
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