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"Measuring the length of a shadow from noonday sun"
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(i) How do shadows change during the day?

-Go outside on a sunny morning (the first measurement at 10 am)

-Have a partner trace your shadow with a piece of chalk and also measure your height.

- Do this again at 11 am and 12 noon.

- Be sure you are standing in the same place.

"Measuring the length of our shadow"

No
Student's name
Height (in cm)
Length of the shadow
10:00a.m
11:00a.m 
12:00noon

1.

         
2.          
3.          
4.          

 

(2) How have your shadows changed since morning?

(3) On what does the length of shadows depend on?

- the time of the day?

-the size of an object?

 


Ms. Khin Ma Gyi & Grade 9 Students
No (2) Basic Education High School,
Dagon Township, Yangon,
Union of Myanmar

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