Shadow Stick

Today we were able to do the shadow stick experiment we read about during our Spring Series Challenge - #2 Spring Weather.

Here is our shadow stick when we first set it up this morning. We cut down a dowel and poked it through a piece of cardboard. A little later we had to place flower pots at each corner to keep it from being blown away.

Starting at 9:00am we marked where the shadow of the dowel ended every 30 minutes until 3:00pm this afternoon.

My kids enjoyed hearing the timer go off and racing to the back porch so they could help mark the shadow. There were also times in between when I could hear A & N discussing how much the shadow had moved since the last time we marked it. I can tell they really enjoyed doing this experiment, and will look forward to doing it again in June, September and December.