Week 2: Changing Shadows: Move the Object or Light

Children explore how to make the shadow of an object inside the shadow theater bigger, smaller, and clear enough to identify by moving a flashlight closer and farther away.

Children explore how a shadow is made by an object that blocks the light. They use shapes to build and test objects to move closer to and farther from the light to make a shadow that fills an outline on the cave wall.

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 brainstorm, plan, and design a theater space for performing shadowbox shows in the classroom.

Children explore how to make the shadow of an object inside the shadow theater bigger, smaller, and clear enough to identify by moving a flashlight closer and farther away.

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

Children explore shadows in a dark, digital cave. They make big and small shadows to match an outline that is on the cave wall.

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 watch the video Shadow Puppets and make connections to their own shadow explorations.

Children use positional words and count children as they play Simon Says shadow games.

Children watch the video Shadow Puppets and make connections to their own shadow explorations.

Children explore shadows in a dark, digital cave. They make big and small shadows to match an outline that is on the cave wall.