Part I. Overview of contextual factors and the topic 1. Provide a description of the topic The fourth topic of Poetry Made With Feet is called The New Players of Color Psychology. This field of study considers the implications of color in human perception, it provides to each color the representation of a feeling or mood. Red represents love, blue has a visual relation with peace and eternity, or green symbolizes nature, for instance. In this topic students have the opportunity of developing skills to identificate psychology of color theory and based that, be able to provide a meaning to the different T-shirt of soccer teams according to their colors.
This topic also gives the chance to the students to integrate Colorsplash app to change the color of some soccer T-shirts and according to the results determine what kind of perception changes have occurred in the representation of each soccer team.
2. Context Each soccer team has developed along the years some characteristics that differentiate it from others, it includes a home stadium, a mascot, a badge, and undoubtedly, a T-shirt. This piece of clothes possesses an emblematic color that in case of national soccer teams corresponds to national flag colors. But through the years, teams and fans have gave different meanings to this color or colors in their T-shirts.
3. Learners The targeted learner will be 10th. grade students from 15 to 17 years from Colegio Mara Mercedes Carranza in Bogot, Colombia.
Students 10th. grade students Students number 38 students in one class Class Language Class Class time Two consecutive courses one week and each lasts for 40 minutes Time Span One week two courses
Part II. Design Components 1. Learning goals Upon completion of this learning unit, students are expected to reach the following goals: ! Students will be able to conceptualize the main aspects about color psychology theory. ! Students will exemplify color psychology with contextual elements found in advertising, movies and pictures. ! Students will reflect upon the importance of using different colors for representing a soccer team, a political party, a new product, etc. ! Students will increase awareness about their environment, considering the uses of color around them. ! Students will be able to handle a mobile learning app to develop a knowledge and aply it in a real context.
2. Activity
! Introduction: (5 minutes) Students will be asked to remember different T-shirt soccer teams colors, both clubs and national teams. The teacher will write the relations on the board. Then, he will ask why national teams such as Brazil or Mexico used those kind of colors in their uniform, after the univocal answer, then, the teacher will ask why some soccer clubs like Bayern Munich, Manchester United or Inter de Milan use that kind of colors in their uniforms. This question may guide the students to create some hypothesis as answers. The teacher will take some of those opinions to present the color psychology theory.
! Presentation The teacher will present the main aspects of this theory, a brief historical introduction and some examples from painting.
! Activity 1 The students will be asked to hypothesize about some advertisements the teacher found in magazines and presents in a Powerpoint presentation. This exercise could promote a debate between students that the teacher would guide to the major topic.
! Activity 2 In this moment, the teacher will take the answers from the former activities and use them on the T-shirt soccer field. Through color psychology theory the course will explain the possible reasons of the use of a specific color in T-shirt teams.
! Activity 3 Working by couples, students will make a research workshop. Each couple will look pieces of information on the Internet about a different soccer team and answer the following questions: 1. Which are the emblematic colors of your soccer team? 2. Has the team always used the same colors in its uniform? If it doesnt, describe the former color combination? 3. What is the color combination of the visitor uniform of your team? 4. According to color psychology theory establish an interpretation for both the home and visitor uniforms -and previous color combination in case- of your team.
! Activity 4 Work couples will be asked to take down a list of attributes of an ideal team. They will take into account values, physical and psychological skills, team-work abilities, spiritual paths, etc. Then, they will have to connect that list to a specific set of colors according to color psychology theory.
! Activity 5 Couples of students will use the Colorsplash app for the first time in the course. With a help from a YouTube video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xwehbr3MRyQ) students will identify the main characteristics of this product.
! Activity 6 Work couples will receive some pictures of the T-shirts of their corresponding soccer teams. They will be in charge of changing the color of their T-shirt using Colorsplash according to the list of attributes around color psychology theory they made.
! Activity 7 Work couples will present their artistic interventions to the rest of the class. They will connect the different characteristics with the new T-shirt colors. After, the rest of the students will share their comments for creating a reflection debate as the end of the unity.
Description of the app ! Mobile App: Colorsplash https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/color-splash-for- ipad/id374308914 ColorSplash is an app that is designed by Pocket Pixels Inc. Its aim is to stimulate kids creativity through picking colors to add color to a black-and-white photo with finger- tapping. The newest version of the app is 2.0.2 that is updated on Oct. 23rd, 2013. It requires iOS 5.0 or later and compatible with iPad/iPhone/iPod.
Colorsplash is an app that allows students to access with sessions and upload images from their cell phones.
When students have chose the picture, Colorsplash offers the chance to keep it in black and white tones or turn it in colors.
If students select black and white option, they can scratch on it and applying the color in the area they define.
Finally, when students have finished their piece of art, the can save the image, save the session and work on it again later.