Week 2: Changing Shadows: Move the Object or Light

Children make predictions and test them out as they explore what happens to the size of a shadow when a light source is moved closer to the object, then farther away.

Children explore how the size of a shadow changes when children move a light closer to, then farther away from a stationary object.

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.

As children move a flashlight up and down above a sticky note they are holding, they notice how the size of the shadow changes.

Children make predictions and test them out as they explore what happens to the size of a shadow when a light source is moved closer to the object, then farther away.

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

As children move a flashlight up and down above a sticky note they are holding, they notice how the size of the shadow changes.

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

Children review and discuss their Shadow Hunt photos.

Children discuss selected pictures in What Makes a Shadow? by Clyde Robert Bulla.

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