Shadows
I would choose this activity for my Junior Infant class. I really liked the bear shadow lesson and could see how this would be engaging to a infant class.
Hook: Curiousity Cube with vaious items which will be used such as teddy, torch, book,
I would love to use this book: Moonbear’s Shadow to discuss shadows with children. I think having a bear would make it fun and interesting for them. I would try to do this activity when we would have some support (or even use some children from another older class to support) so that they could experiment using torches and looking at bears shadows.
Key questions are necessary to extend children’s learning open questions based on blooms taxonomy could be used.
Why is that shadow short/long? What would happen if you held it high or low? What if you switched bear with a dinosaur? What if you used two three bears?
What would it be like if you did this activity at different times of the day?
Could extend to looking at different objects.
I would also go outside and draw the children’s shadows at different points on a sunny day (with support to draw).
Would discuss outcomes with children and reasons about why that is the case.
Possibly do a shadow puppet and link around the book and make a shadow box.