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Grade 1ScienceAbout 55 minutes

How do we make a shadow grow? Shadow Makers, a complete lesson from Light and Sound. Children predict how to make a shadow bigger, then change one thing at a time: where the flashlight is, where the puppet is, and what the puppet is made of.

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