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No Shadow of Doubt
Fifth graders must use a pencil to draw in the shadows they think will be formed by a house, a greenhouse, and a tree. The sun is behind each of these objects, and an open field is in front of them. That's where pupils draw their...
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Being Shadowed
What causes a shadow to appear? Have kindergartners and first graders explore shadows with a fun science activity. After reading a short paragraph about light sources, they draw a shadow for a little girl based on the location of the...
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Exploring Shadows
What's that lurking in the shadows? An activity that demonstrates how eclipses happen. Science scholars investigate how light and distance interact to form shadows. The experiment uses simple materials to generate data and observations...
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Science--Learning About Light and Shadows
In this light and shadows worksheet, students find 5 transparent items and 5 opaque items from the classroom and categorize them underneath their appropriate headings. Students look at 4 boxes with shadows and draw a little sun to show...
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Fish Shadow Match
In this shadows worksheet, students match the different fish with their shadows. Students match 6 fish with their shadows.
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The Sun's Path
Starting with questions about the tilt of the Earth and apparent motion of the sun, a worksheet provides instructions on how to figure the paths of the Sun on certain dates. Learners answer three more questions, complete with...
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Dinosaur Shadow Match
In this dinosaur worksheet, students draw a line from each of the 5 dinosaur pictures on the left to the matching shadow on the right. The answers are on the second page.
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Experiment: Rainbow Shadows
In this science experiment with light worksheet, students explore what shadows can be created with the use of different colored bulbs and flashlights.
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Farm Animal Shadow Match
In this farm animal worksheet, students draw a line from each farm animal to its matching shadow. There are 4 pictures and shadows to match up.
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Help the Groundhog Find Its Shadow
In this animal shadows worksheet, students examine six different animals and their shadows. Students circle the groundhog's shadow and then draw a line from the other animals to their shadows.
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Seashell Shadow Match
In this shape matching worksheet, students will draw a line to connect a seashell to the correct shadow. There are a total of 5 seashells.
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Flower Shadow Match
In this flower shadow match activity, students examine the 7 pictures of flowers and then match each of them to the shadowed pictures.
It's About Time
Color
How can a hand puppet's shadow look like a dog? The lesson explains the science behind shadows, combining paint colors and the colors used in old televisions. Scholars use white, red, blue, and green lights to experiment with colors...
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Light and Shadows
In this earth science worksheet, students examine 6 pictures that show the sun in relation to a tree. They also see a clock and the time. They look at the position of the sun and draw the shadow of the tree in the proper position.
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Sun-Shadow Mandala Worksheet
In this Sun-Shadow Mandala Worksheet, students complete a graphic organizer and create an original mandala. Students are given 8 categories with related questions as a guide.
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Match the Shadows
In this shadows instructional activity, students examine 4 pictures of common objects in one column. Students draw a line to match each object with its shadow.
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My Secret Unicorn
In this unicorn activity worksheet, students complete 6 worksheets all containing unicorn activities. These include: coloring, doing a maze, drawing, completing a word search and a connect the dots activity.
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Groundhog Draw/ Erase A Rhyme
In this Groundhog Day worksheet, students fill in 8 missing words in a poem about Punxsutawney Phil seeing his shadow. There is a word bank.
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LRO Sees Apollo 11 on the Moon!
In this moon image worksheet, students determine the scale of an image taken by the LRO satellite of the Apollo 11 landing site. Students calculate the sun's angle at the time of the photograph using the shadow of the Lunar Lading...
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Alien Shadow Match
In this matching worksheet, students draw lines from pictures of aliens to their "shadows." There are 5 aliens total, with matching black shadows.
Skcin
Sun Safe Summer Activity Pack
Eight activities make up a packet all about sun safety. Scholars mix and match how animals stay sun safe, dress paper dolls in appropriate summer clothing, make a cootie catcher, solve word puzzles, grow sunflowers, examine...
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Lesson 3-5: Proportions and Similar Figures
In this similar figures worksheet, students use proportions to solve 6 short answer and multiple choice questions. Students use proportions to answer questions about map scales and height of trees given shadow lengths.
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Angle Measurements
In this angle measurement worksheet, 10th graders solve and complete 9 different word problems. First, they read the word problems carefully. Then, students draw a picture that represents each problem and solve. Finally, they find side...
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Groundhog Day Craft
For this Groundhog Day craft worksheet, 1st graders cut and paste the 3 pictures of the sun, a groundhog and a tree onto another sheet of paper, then draw the shadows of the groundhog and the tree.