Topic 19 How shadows change through the day — what needs James (29)
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Each lesson in teaching order: its one-line summary, the article, the script and the quiz, then your ruling.
Topic 19 · Lesson 1 · Video / article words: 147 / 286 · Quiz items: 9 · Figures: 11
Lesson 1 A shadow is long, then short, then long again
The flagpole's shadow 18, 12, 10, 9, 10, 12, 18 meters from 9 to 3; the Sun climbs and the shadow shrinks, the Sun sinks and the shadow grows; Salma's prediction judged; the pattern
Topic 19 · Lesson 2 · Video / article words: 144 / 259 · Quiz items: 8 · Figures: 9
Lesson 2 A shadow swings round through the day
A shadow is on the far side from the Sun; Sun in the east, shadow west; Sun high in the south, shadow short and north; Sun in the west, shadow east; the steady swing
Topic 19 · Lesson 3 · Video / article words: 150 / 348 · Quiz items: 8 · Figures: 10
Lesson 3 Construct a line graph
The title and two labels; the numbers up the side from below the lowest reading to above the highest; a dot for each reading above its time; a straight line from each dot to the next; Salma's half-past-eleven reading judged — only the dots were measured
Topic 19 · Lesson 4 · Video / article words: 149 / 259 · Quiz items: 8 · Figures: 11
Lesson 4 Graph a day of shadows
The shadow record as a line graph; the dots drop to noon and climb again; the lowest dot is the shortest shadow; a flat graph beside the dipping one; one bar graph read
Topic 19 · Lesson 5 · Video / article words: 149 / 362 · Quiz items: 9 · Figures: 4
Lesson 5 Experiment, or just watching?
Did Sienna change something on purpose? — a week of counting (no), the seed (yes), the shade (yes), the storm (no); "experiment" and "observation study" coined; the class's shadow record is an observation study, and both are real science
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