Week 2: Changing Shadows: Move the Object or Light

Children participate in shadow demonstrations using a flashlight, a hand, and shadow puppets. What happens to the shadow as the hand or shadow puppet gets closer to the flashlight?

Children explore how a shadow is made by an object that blocks the light and how the shadow changes when the object is moved closer to or farther from the light.

Children use crayons and drawing paper to chart the way the shadow of a ball grows as the ball is moved closer and closer to a light source.

Children create shadow puppets and mount them on coffee stirrers, craft sticks, or rulers.

Children participate in shadow demonstrations using a flashlight, a hand, and shadow puppets. What happens to the shadow as the hand or shadow puppet gets closer to the flashlight?

Children explore digital simulations of how shadows are made by light and an object that blocks the light.

Children review and discuss their Shadow Hunt photos.

Children use their hands and shadow puppets to cast shadows on a sheet.

Children sing and act out a song, turning so that their shadows are in front of, next to, and behind them.

Children use crayons and drawing paper to chart the way the shadow of a ball grows as the ball is moved closer and closer to a light source.

Children act out the words as they chant the first verse of the classic poem “My Shadow,” by Robert Louis Stevenson.