Secretly select an object and display it on the overhead. Have the students use different adjectives to describe the shadow and guess what it is. Measure, estimate, record and graph shadows of different objects. Write class or individual poems about shadows. Shadows are . . .
Students present a shadow play using flashlights and hands or cut-outs.
Make profile drawings of students using a flashlight, white chalk, and black paper. African folk tale about a shadow that acts like a human being.