Activity set: The sun and shadows.
I like the idea of using the story as a starting point for this lesson and I think if I were to explore this lesson I would begin by reading a similar story. I would like to organise the children into a semi circle and make the room as dark as possible before turning on the light. An active and involved discussion around shadows and lights. Children will often respond more to their peers and learn a lot from others. After reading the story I would break the class into two sets – one set could explore making shadows with torches and how they get longer or shorter and the other set would explore how to make different shadow shapes, before they both swap over. As a link to other subjects we could use chalks on the playground to map a shadow and change it over the day or else use PE equipment to mark a shadow and see if the shape changes dirction/size during the day.