Week 3: Changing Shadows

Children explore creating shadows to provide shade for dogs at a sunny park. They arrange different size bushes to create big, small, tall, and wide shadows.

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

Children create and test a structure that will block light and create shade for their toy pets to protect them from the hot sun.

Children explore how a shadow is made by an object that blocks the light and predict where the shadow will fall when the light is moved.

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 create sculptures from play dough and craft materials, then shine a flashlight on their sculpture to examine its shadow.

Children create and test a structure that will block light and create shade for their toy pets to protect them from the hot sun.

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

Children explore creating shadows to provide shade for the dogs to help them stay cool in the hot, sunny park. Children arrange and stack objects to create small, big, tall, and wide shadows, depending on the size and shape of the dogs.

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 trace and measure shadows at different times of the day, and discover how the location and length of the shadows change. They use the Cool Shadow tool to document their experiment.

Children explore using different materials to make shade for the dogs. They plant bushes and trees or stack bricks to block the sunlight to create shade for all the dogs.