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Making Shadows
This activity, from the Royal Observatory Greenwich, looks at how shadows are formed and what affects their size, direction and shape. Students place an object at the centre of a sheet of paper, and use a torch to produce shadows of different length and direction.
This activity can be used as an introduction to shadows made by the Sun, or to model the path of the Sun across the sky.
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