Changing shadows

Today we were learning about the opposites light and dark. We used a globe and a torch to show how the Earth spins around while the sun stays still and looked at how this made some parts of the world light (during daytime) while the other side of the world was dark (night time).

Outside, we explored our shadows. We stood on a line and got a friend to draw around our shadow.

Later in the morning we went outside and stood where we had before. Our shadow had moved!

We talked about why this had happened. Fallon said "because the Earth is moving round and the sun is staying still." As the Earth spins, it make it look as though the sun is moving across the sky because it's in a different place. That means our shadow falls in a different place! We made predictions about where our shadow would be in the afternoon. Can you guess where it was?

Our shadow had moved around again! Well done to Fallon who was able to predict where her shadow would be in the afternoon. The Earth has moved around again and it makes the sun look as though it is in a different place!