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Activity 6 Critical Thinking Experiential Scientific
Temper
Learning

In the poem ‘My Shadow’, you read about how your shadow changes in
size at different times in a day. Do you know how a shadow is formed?
Let us perform this experiment to understand how a shadow is formed.

You will need:

• an acrylic sheet
• a ball

• a torch

• a teddy bear
What to do:

• Cover the windows of a room with the curtains and switch off
the light.

• Make sure that the room is dark.

• Set up all the objects on a table and keep the table near a wall.
• Throw light on each object one by one using a torch.

• Observe whether each object forms a shadow on the wall or not.

What did you observe?
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What do you conclude from this experiment?
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Teacher’s note: Bring the learners’ attention to the fact that a shadow

is formed when light is not able to pass through an opaque object.

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