Week 3: Changing Shadows

Children listen to and discuss the book What Makes a Shadow?, by Clyde Robert Bulla.

Children explore how a shadow is made by an object that blocks the light, how a shadow changes when two objects overlap, and how a shadow changes when the object moves.

Inspired by photos in the book Guess Whose Shadow?, children stage and photograph their own mystery shadows, creating a digital guessing game to share with their classmates.

Children play shadow math spinner games as they count dots and position objects to build corresponding shadows.

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

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

Children share a digital guessing game with their classmates based on the mystery shadows photographs they staged using the Mystery Shadows tool.

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.

Children play shadow math spinner games as they count dots and position objects to build corresponding shadows.

Children explore how a shadow is made by an object that blocks the light, how a shadow changes when two objects overlap, and how a shadow changes when the object moves.