Senior infants took advantage of the bright sunny days to learn about shadows.
Shadows are created when an object is placed in front of a light source such as a flash light, lamp or the sun and it stops the light from passing through.
At 10am, the children went outside to draw around each other’s shadows. Some great poses were captured. The children then predicted (took a guess) as to what would happen their shadows later in the day when the sun had risen higher in the sky.
At 1.15pm, we went out to check our shadows again. The children guessed correctly that the shadow would change direction, however to the children’s surprise, their shadows had gotten shorter. They thought they would get longer. As the sun rises higher it the sky, and reaches above the children’s heads, with no objects to block the light, the shadow becomes shorter.
In the evening time, as the sun lowers in the sky, and goes behind your body, which blocks more of the sun, your shadow becomes longer.
Perhaps you could try this at home!!
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- Posing and partners drawing shadows
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- Checking if our shadow matched our bodies at 10am
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- Looking good shadows!!
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- 1.15PM Check – Did our shadow move?
