Silouhette Study - The Other Side of the World...

Second grade completed this lesson in two days - first reviewing warm and cool colors as we painted coffee filters with each set of colors, respectively. We then talked about the word, silhouette, and what it meant to the second graders before looking at various silhouette images.

Thanks to www.antipodemap.com I was able to find Chicago's exact opposite location in the world... in the Indian ocean off the southwest coast of Australia. Incorporating science, I spoke about how the Earth moves and what that means for points on the map opposite from one another.

We then created our United States/Australia silhouettes with our warm and cool colored coffee filters...