Tracking Shadows During a Day

Reflection/Synthesis Questions:

1. What patterns did you notice about the shadow length throughout the day?
   
2. What caused these patterns?
   
3. When you analyzed your shadow graphs, when did the longest shadows occur? Why?
4. When you analyzed your shadow graphs, when did the shortest shadows occur? Why?
5. What was the most challenging part of this lesson?
6. What do you feel you learned from completing this lesson?
   

Reflection Answers:

1. It started long then got short and long again.
2. ​These at terns were caused by the rising and setting of the sun.
   
3. ​The longest shadow occurred at 9:25 because the sun was the lowest then.
   
4. The shortest shadow occurred at 12:10 because the sun was the highest in the sky.
   
5. The most challenging part of the lesson was making sure that the clipboard stayed in the same position.
   
6. I learned that the length of the shadow depends on where the sun is in the sky.