Lesson Planning

Teaching

• Understand day length changes each day and varies from season to season.
• Go outside and look at shadows (or create them in the classroom) and look at how they change.
• Photograph them and draw around them on the playground in pairs with chalk (Yr1).
• Track a shadow by observing and measuring over time and record the results (Yr2).

Activities

1. Observe the weather outside and record in the classroom using symbols (Yr1).
2. Report on the weather they have observed and learn how to measure the temperature (Yr2).

Investigations
Understand day length changes each day and varies from season to season. Look at shadows (or create them in the classroom) and look at how they change.
Year 1 - Photograph them and draw around them on the playground in pairs with chalk.
Year 2 - Track a shadow by observing and measuring over time and record the results.

Vocabulary
Day, night, shadow length, change, light, dark