Students will complete the Process Skills blackline master on Lab Manual pages 103-104 as they do this activity. Students test the effect of a magnet on various metal objects. Then, students place paper, cardboard, and wood between the magnet and the metal objects and make inferences about the effect of these materials on the magnet's attraction. Students will complete the Process Skills blackline master on Lab Manual pages 97-98 as they do the activity. Students observe and measure their shadow at two different times a day.
Students also explore making shadows using a flashlight.
Based on these experiences, students write an operational definition of a shadow. Students will complete the Process Skills blackline master on Lab Manual pages 101-102 as they do the activity.