Year 5 have been studying the Earth, Sun and Moon in Science this term. As part of this topic we have been looking at how shadows change throughout the day.
We started by looking at why we get shadows. We saw that light could not bend around opaque objects.This is because light travels in straight lines.
Then we chose an object and drew around it.
We shone a lamp from different angles on a protractor. This represented the sun appearing to move throughout the day.
We observed the shadows that were produced and drew around them.
We saw that the shadows were pointing to the west in the morning and the east in the afternoon. We also saw that the shortest shadow was at midday whilst those in the morning and afternoon were much longer.
