Why does your shadow move throughout the day? Watch this PEEP video [1:27] to understand how the sun's movement causes our shadow to change direction, shape, and size. Also included are teaching tips and how to conduct your own chalk...

Play with PEEP to explore how shadows change when the position of light changes. Detailed teaching tips are included as well as additional shadow activities for the students.

A picture book about shadows. Book includes audio narration in 16 additional languages with text in English.

Resource provides a description, questions, essay topics, lesson plans, biographies, and notes guide a reading of Sun, Stone, and , Shadows, a compilation of short stories by twentieth-century Mexican authors Juan Rulfo, Octavio Paz,...

Shadows are all around us.Students will use reading comprehension strategies to distinguish between fantasy and reality.

You can use shadows and a meter stick to measure very tall objects from the ground--and before you try this experiment yourself, see how it works with a Java applet that measures the height of a Tyrannosaurus Rex.

This science experiment helps students understand how the size of a shadow depends on the size of the object casting the shadow as well as the position of the light source and screen.

In this activity students can make a pair of coloured glasses, which allows them to see coloured shadows in 3D. Students will learn what shadows are and how they are produced.

Information and illustrations about the history of shadow puppertry as a theatrical art.

[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a little girl named Stella who had fun playing with her shadow on a sunny day. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

Can you judge an object by its shadow? Use your mental rotation skills to determine if a shadow can be produced by a particular shape.

Where do shadows come from? Use this activity guide to talk about something we encounter every day, shadows. This activity works best on a sunny day.

Ancient Chacoans used shadows to tell daily time and seasons. Build a model that demonstrates the changes in Earth's tilt that affect the length of shadows relative to the sun that determines the seasons. The lesson plan uses everyday...

Is that right side of your brain yearning to express its artistic side? This is a project that blends art with science. Learn about light and colorful shadows in these experiments where you mix and match various colors of light to create...

This fun activity helps you to understand the movement of the sun by studying shadows.

Aggie lives in a cottage near Loch Ness in Scotland. Help her identify shadows and match different objects with their shadows.

Students will enjoy these activities where they draw shadows, and observe the sun's placement and how its position impacts on the size of a shadow.

Everyone and everything has a shadow. Shadows illustrate how three-dimensional objects can be viewed in two dimensions.

William is a Scottish boy who is learning about the sun and how it casts shadows. Try to help him find out.

Students investigate shadows and discover that the sun is a source of light.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Explores how light interacts with objects in order to create shadows.

Paint Shop Pro offers a wide-variety of text tools to create unique graphic images. This lesson plan allows learners to explore the text tools and add drop shadows to text and objects.

Create a series of shadow boxes to form a complete silhouette of a dinosaur with this challenge. To complete this challenge, students will use everyday materials and this site to document their process.

This page and the three pages which follow discuss how X-ray technology can be used to produce an image of the human body. Discussion is understandable and highly intriguing. Several interactive animations allow the visitor to explore...