Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Shadows
Can you judge an object by its shadow? Use your mental rotation skills to determine if a shadow can be produced by a particular shape.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Colored Shadows
Manipulate dual shadows and learn why different types of shadows are cast.
Florida State University
Florida State University: Molecular Expressions: Measuring With Shadows
You can use shadows and a meter stick to measure very tall objects from the ground--and before you try this experiment yourself, see how it works with a Java applet that measures the height of a Tyrannosaurus Rex.
University of Chicago
University of Chicago: What's Your Slant? Sun and Shadows
This fun activity helps you to understand the movement of the sun by studying shadows.
Harvard University
University of Harvard: This Is a Stickup!
Students are taught how to make a sundial. The relationship between angles and the sides of a right triangle are explored. Great lesson plan ideas with plenty of background information. The lesson is adapted for grade levels k-6 with...
Harvard University
Eyes on the Sky, Feet on the Ground: The Earth's Orbit
Students perform many inquiry activities related to Earth's orbit. Included are recording daily temperatures, observing the sun's path over several weeks, tracking sunrise and sunset times, and angle of sunlight. Diagrams make lessons...
Other
Center for Science Education: Eye on the Sky: What Makes Shadows?
Learners will enjoy these activities where they draw shadows, and observe the sun's placement and how its position impacts on the size of a shadow.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: First Grade Science: Me and My Shadow
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Explores how light interacts with objects in order to create shadows.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Geometric Shadows
Young scholars will identify objects as translucent, transparent, or opaque. Upon seeing the shadow of the opaque object, students will identify the geometric figure created by the shadow.This lesson plan was created as a result of the...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Shadows Shadows Everywhere!
Shadows are all around us.Students will use reading comprehension strategies to distinguish between fantasy and reality.
Utah STEM Foundation
Utah Stem Action Center: Moving Shadows
Where do shadows come from? Use this activity guide to talk about something we encounter every day, shadows. This activity works best on a sunny day.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: First Grade Science
This customizable digital textbook covers topics related to first-grade science. It is Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) aligned.
University of Texas at Austin
The University of Texas Mc Donald Observatory: Shadow Play
Everyone and everything has a shadow. Shadows illustrate how three-dimensional objects can be viewed in two dimensions.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Unit: Grade 1: Mooncake
First graders learn factual information about the moon and how light creates shadows. Noting that authors oftentimes use their imaginations to create stories, 1st graders explore how misconceptions and misunderstandings can often be...
Ministry of Education and Employment of Spain
Red Escolar: Jugando Con Sombras
In Spanish. Learn how to copy a figure using graph paper and also have fun playing with shadows.
Science Museum of Minnesota
Science Museum of Minnesota: Thinking Fountain: Opaque
In this lesson use objects found around the house or classroom to make sun prints. Link provided for the construction of a light island for classroom use.
PBS
Pbs Kids: Plum Landing: Clouds or Shadows
This interactive is based on the PBS Kids' series, Plum Landing. Students will read informational text about clouds and shadows. Then they will make observations about them and draw these on the site.
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Bob Miller's Light Walk
Come along with artist Bob Miller as he takes a "Light Walk." His unique discoveries will change the way you look at light, shadow, and images.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Earth and Sun
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this flipchart, students will learn the relationship between the Earth and the Sun.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Mn Step: What Does the Sun Do?
After a discussion about what pupils think the Sun does, the class takes a walk outside to observe what it actually does do. They may notice things like shadows and reflections. Back in class, their ideas are shared and recorded.
Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies
Mocomi: What Is a Shadow?
Learn how shadows are formed and other interesting facts.
Children's Discovery Museum
Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose: Shadow Drawing
Have fun in the sun with shadow drawing.