Year 3 Science - What is a shadow?

Lesson: Science

Class: Year 3 Year: 2016 - 2017

Year 3 have had such a busy day today, investigating what shadows are. We started by striking a pose outside to see what happens when our bodies block the light.

Then we combined science, DT and literacy for a shadow investigation. We wanted to understand how shadows are formed so we decided to make the different characters (Rhodopis, pirates and the servants) and settings (pyramids, pirate ship, palm trees) from the opening of the Egyptian Cinderella. We then performed the opening in our colour groups. Thank you to year 1 for letting us borrow your classroom so we had a light source (projector) and a screen to perform on.

We had lots of fun designing, constructing and acting with our puppets. Check out our gallery for today...