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Experiment: Rainbow Shadows

For Students 4th - 6th
In this science experiment with light worksheet, students explore what shadows can be created with the use of different colored bulbs and flashlights.
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Light and Shadows

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students explore shadows. In this shadow and light lesson, students predict what will happen to a shadow when the light source is dimmed. Students participate in a whiteboard interactive lesson.
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Dinosaur Shadow Match

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this dinosaur instructional activity, learners draw a line from each of the 5 dinosaur pictures on the left to the matching shadow on the right. The answers are on the second page.
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The Longest Shadow

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this shadows worksheet, students view and study 6 pictures and decide which pair of pictures will make the longest shadow. Students fill in 2 missing words.
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Light and Shadows

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students observe and record the apperacne of shadows and how their position and shpae changes during the course of the day. Students measure and record the length oof a partner's shadow at different intervals during the day. In pairs,...
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Shadow Friends

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students trace each other's shadows. In this shadow lesson, students use sidewalk chalk to draw each other's shadows on outdoor sidewalks. A game, a song, a craft, and a recipe are all included with the lesson.
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Farm Animal Shadow Match

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this farm animal learning exercise, students draw a line from each farm animal to its matching shadow. There are 4 pictures and shadows to match up.
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Light and Shadows

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Learners participate in an online lesson to determine how light travels from a source, and to explain that shadows form when light travelling from a source is blocked.
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Sun, Shadows, Surface Structure...and the Face on Mars

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students use light and shadow information to make inferences regarding the three dimensional shapes of specific objects photographed on the surface of Mars. Limitations of the of the data provided are discussed and entries made into the...
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My Shadow

For Students K - 2nd
In this writing instructional activity, students read a story starter which asks them to recall a time they saw their shadow. Students write the story and illustrate it.
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The Tilt of the Earth And the Seasons

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders measure the change in the size of their shadow over time. They visit a fixed structure and record the date, the time, and the measurement of the length of their shadow. They do this over the course of the school year. They...
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My Shadow Pictures

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students capture shadows for a shadow dance! They experiment with shadows created by people or items blocking light sources (sun, bright lamp) to draw their shadow pictures. Afterward, they cut out the shadows and arrange them on a large...
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Shadow Puppets

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students experiment with the effects that various light and puppet positions have on shadows they make with their hands and arms. They work in pairs to trace their shadows and create puppets with the silhouettes. Afterward, they make...
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Help the Groundhog Find Its Shadow

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this animal shadows worksheet, students examine six different animals and their shadows. Students circle the groundhog's shadow and then draw a line from the other animals to their shadows.
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Shifting Shadows

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this shifting shadows worksheet, students shine a flashlight on a paper cup and select which picture shows where the shadow fell.
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Leaf Shadows

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this leaves instructional activity, students match different leaves with their shadows. Students match 5 leaves with their shadows in this instructional activity.
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Shadows and Skyscrapers

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders explain the relationship between the position of the sun, a city's latitude and shadow length. Ratio's, geometry, and algebra are used to determine the shadow lengths and building heights. A sun angle (altitude) charts to...
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Me and My Job Shadow, Part 3

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders write a paper summarizing their previous job shadow experience. They describe both the positive and negative aspects of the job they observed and discuss one skill used on the job. Students write thank you letters to the...
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Countdown Challenge: Shadow Sleuth

For Students 7th - 8th
In this shadow sleuth worksheet, students use proportions and indirect measurement to determine the measurement of given objects. This one-page worksheet contains three problems.
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Making a Claim: Moon Shadow’s Point of View of the Immediate Aftermath

For Teachers 6th Standards
Body paragraphs are the building blocks of every essay. Pupils view and discuss a model essay using a rubric to evaluate one of its supporting paragraphs. Next, scholars use what they've learned to continue drafting their own literary...
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Sky 2: Shadows

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore space science by participating in a shadow experiment. In this sky observation lesson, students identify how the sun creates different sized shadows by moving across the horizon. Students utilize yard sticks, markers,...
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Make a Shadow Clock

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students make shadow clocks. In this earth science lesson, students follow the provided steps to make shadow clocks out of the provided pattern and tagboard. A game, a song, a craft, and a recipe are all included with the lesson.
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Olympic Shadow Boxes

For Teachers 9th - 12th
What a cool way to incorporate art and use reference materials. Learners use classroom reference materials such as almanacs, encyclopedias, and dictionaries to answer one of four questions, and then they use the information to create a...
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Poetry: "Seven Types of Shadow"

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students examine the way ghosts are portrayed in films and literature. For this poetry lesson, students listen to  the first five stanzas of the poem "Seven Types of Shadow" read by U A Fanthorpe on The Poetry Archive website and discuss...

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