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The activity set that I would choses is ‘ The Sun and the Shadows’. I would introduce the children to the topic of shadows with a game of ‘ Shadow Chasing’ in the playground, followed by some chalk shadow tracing. I really like the idea of giving the children the task of creating a sun dial in their groups with which they could monitor the sun and it’s movements. There are so many great integration opportunities with this idea also: Maths – lines and angles, time zones etc, Science – Earth’s rotation, History – ancient civilisations use of sun dials, Art – construction. In groups, the children would work together, using paper plates, lollypop sticks, a protractor and a compass to construct a working sun dial. They would then observe and record the movements of the sun throughout the course of the day.