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

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.

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.

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.

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...

Manipulate dual shadows and learn why different types of shadows are cast.

Online text of Paul Laurence Dunbar's "Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow." Links to each of his texts for easy navigation.

Maintained by the University of Michigan's Humanities Text Initiative, this website offers the entire text of three of Teasdale's collection, "Flame and Shadow," is available through a series of links.

This is the full text of the one-act play In the Shadow of the Glen by John Millington Synge including a list of characters.

This is the full text of the poetry collection Flame and Shadow by American poet Sara Teasdale.

This resource provides information about light and shadows. In addition, there is a short quiz that can be taken.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Watch this interactive animation that shows how shadow lengths change based on the position of the sun. Also on site is a short quiz

In this lesson plan, young scholars experience how light interacts with the environment by investigating relationships between shadows and light. Students will experiment with light by observing how light travels through materials and...

A video of the book "My Shadow", written by Robert Stevenson, and illustrated by Ted Rand. Just Books Read Aloud is a site that includes children's books read aloud by normal (but enthusiastic) readers.

Students will identify objects as translucent, transparent, or opaque. Upon seeing the shadow of the opaque object, students will identify the geometric figure created by the shadow.This lesson plan was created as a result of the Girls...

Have you ever thought about your shadow? One way to learn about them is to make your own shadow box theater--once a very popular form of entertainment in Europe during the 1800s and early 1900s.

Scholastic presents this discussion guide of "King of Shadows" by Susan Cooper. The guide includes discussion questions, extension activities, and more.

Scholastic presents this discussion guide of "In the Shadow of the Ark" by Anne Provoost. The guide includes discussion questions, extension activities, and more.

An online storybook based on Robert Louis Stevenson's poem, My Shadow. The reading level is at about Grade 2.

This site provides a look at John Brown's life. Content includes a chronology of events in his life, a look at his family and cohorts, newspaper articles, eyewitness accounts, and more.