- How are shadows made outside in the daytime? Provide some evidence to support your answer.
- Can shadows be made inside the classroom? If so, how?
- Do outside shadows change during the day? If so, how? Refer to the pole or stick the class observed outside if needed.
- Think about the time between observations of the pole’s shadow. What happened?
- What does this (the answer to #4) tell you about the sun’s position in the sky?
- Insert one or two photos (from mine above) into your blog post to help you explain how the sun's position appears to follow an arc throughout the day (if weather allows).
- . The sun shines on an object and the spot the object is blocking doesn't get the sunlight and that is a shadow. I know this because we went outside and the objects shadow was right behind the object.
- Yes. Shadows can be made in a classroom using any light as the sun and an object.
- Yes. Shadows do change during the day. As the sun sets they grow longer. As the sun rises they get shorter. When we went out earlier the sun was lower in the sky so the shadows were longer when we went out again the sun was higher in the sky so the The shadows were shorter.
- The shadows shortened at noon, then got longer again at 2:35.
- That when the sun was lower in the sky the shadows were longer.
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