Shadows

Lesson: Science

In order to understand how we get day and night, Year 5 have been investigating shadows.  We began by drawing around one of the playground pencils to see how shadows change over the course of the day.  Afterwards, we tried to simulate the passage of the sun using a torch to understand how the height and angle of the sun changes the length and direction of a shadow.  To finish, we used a football and a torch to create a model of the Earth in order to see how the Earth's rotation causes day and night.