5th Grade: Silhouettes

These stunning Silhouette trees started and ended just in time with the season change. Students learned about this affordable way in the 18th century to get a "photograph" taken of oneself but instead of a side profile students invented their own tree. Using rulers to the half inch a grid was formed. Students either chose a sun or a moon to depict and learned about what truly a warm versus a cool color means, which has everything to do with saturation.