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Jennifer Walker

The Pattern in the Shadows: Stick Puppets

Grades: 5th Grade, 4th Grade, 6th Grade
Subjects: STEAM, Science

Student Instructions

To demonstrate how shadows change with the position of the sun, create a stick figure using pipe cleaners. Attach your stick figure to a pencil. Use your stick figure, a flashlight, and your device to take a photo of “the sun” in 3 locations. Use the pen and label tools to explain how the shadow changes as the sun's position changes. Click add and then click drawing. Add three pages to your activity. Show a different location of the sun on each pages. Use the pen tool and the label tool to add your explanation. Before you click check, make sure you have followed all the directions.

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