PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Shifting Shadows
Why does your shadow move throughout the day? Watch this PEEP video [1:27] to understand how the sun's movement causes our shadow to change direction, shape, and size. Also included are teaching tips and how to conduct your own chalk...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Shadow Shape Game
Play with PEEP to explore how shadows change when the position of light changes. Detailed teaching tips are included as well as additional shadow activities for the students.
Scholastic
Scholastic Instructor: Sun Sational Science
Discover more about the sun when you visit this educational resource. The content of this site includes solar fun facts, experiments, and activities.
National Endowment for the Arts
National Endowment for the Arts: The Big Read: Sun, Stone, and Shadows
Resource provides a description, questions, essay topics, lesson plans, biographies, and notes guide a reading of Sun, Stone, and , Shadows, a compilation of short stories by twentieth-century Mexican authors Juan Rulfo, Octavio Paz,...
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.
Exploratorium
Exploratorium:seasons/shadows: Investigate How Shadows Shift Throughout the Year
Ancient Chacoans used shadows to tell daily time and seasons. Build a model that demonstrates the changes in Earth's tilt that affect the length of shadows relative to the sun that determines the seasons. The lesson plan uses everyday...
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.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Identifying the Sun as a Source of Light by Observing Shadows
Students investigate shadows and discover that the sun is a source of light.
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.
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.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Science: Scotland: Why Do Shadows Change During the Day?
William is a Scottish boy who is learning about the sun and how it casts shadows. Try to help him find out.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Tracking the Sun: Observing the Path of the Sun Throughout the Year
Over the course of the school year, students collect weekly data about the sun's position at a specific time of day, resulting in creating a figure "8" that shows the path of the sun called an analemma.
Harvard University
Eyes on the Sky, Feet on the Ground: The Earth's Rotation
Plenty of cool activities about the Earth's rotation can be found here, such as tracing shadows, observing shadows during different times of the day, and tracking the sun's path in the sky to understand the rotation of the earth.
Children's Discovery Museum
Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose: Shadow Drawing
Have fun in the sun with shadow drawing.
Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies
Mocomi: What Is a Shadow?
Learn how shadows are formed and other interesting facts.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Plix: Shadow Lengths: Seasons
[Free Registration/Login Required] Watch this interactive animation that shows how shadow lengths change based on the position of the sun. Also on site is a short quiz
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.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Earth and Sun
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this flipchart, students will learn the relationship between the Earth and the Sun.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Night Light Video
Watch PEEP and Quack [8:49] have fun with shadows in the middle of the night using flashlights. They learn that shadows can grow and change shape by rotating the object. An additional hands-on activity is provided for students along with...
Harvard University
Harvard Smithsonian: Everyday Classroom Tools
The focus of this series of lessons is to engage students in an exploration of the world around them. The emphasis is on inquiry as students learn about the earth, sun, light, shapes and more.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Science: Scotland: How Are Shadows Formed?
Join James, as he tries to make a dog appear on the wall by using only his hands. Find out how he does this.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Dirtmeister's Science Lab: Let the Sun Shine In
Students graph data reflecting time of day and length of shadow, and then draw conclusions about Earth's seasons and position in relation to the Sun.
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Making a Sun Clock
Learn how to use the sun to tell time. This simple activity reinforces the concepts of light and shadow, night and day, time, and geographical north vs. magnetic north.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Earth, Sun and Moon
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this unit children learn about the shapes and relative sizes of the Earth, Sun and Moon. Using models they learn how the three bodies move relative to each other and how these movements relate to...
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