Lesson Planning
Teaching
- Investigate how objects made from different materials cast shadows.
- Understand how a shadow changes depending on the object’s orientation.
Activities
- Actively investigate how different objects cast shadows by playing a guessing game.
- Understand opaque, transparent and translucent and the shadows these objects cast.
- Investigate how the orientation of an object affects the shadow by making hand shadows.
- Create jointed shadow puppets controlled with a flexible stick connection.
Investigation - exploring
Investigate how different objects create shadows.
Vocabulary
Transparent, translucent, opaque, shadow