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Tracking a Shadow All Day

Read an original article about why shadows change during the day and use a class's bar graph to see how the graph adds to the text.

Grade 4ELAInteractive · Printable

Aligned toRI.4.7

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Format: Interactive · Printable
Grade: Grade 4
Subject: ELA
Question types: Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Matching, Sorting, Short answer

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What students practice

Students read and interpret a bar graph that goes with an informational article.
Students explain how information in a graph adds to the ideas in a text.
Students tell which information comes from the article and which comes from the graph.

How to use

Read the article together, then have students study the bar graph before they answer. Ask them to point to the bar or sentence that supports each answer.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

RI.4.7

Interpret information shown in charts, graphs, diagrams, time lines, or on web pages, and explain how it adds to understanding of the text.

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Tracking a Shadow All Day

Read an article and a bar graph about shadows.

Read the article and the graph

Read the article. Then study the bar graph below it.

Shadows on the Move

1On a sunny day, your shadow follows you everywhere. But have you ever noticed that it changes? Early in the morning, your shadow can stretch far across the ground. Near the middle of the day, it shrinks until it is close to your feet. Why does this happen?

2A shadow forms when an object blocks light. Light travels in straight lines, so it cannot bend around you. When you stand in sunlight, your body stops some of the light from reaching the ground. A dark shape appears on the side of you that faces away from the sun.

3During the day, the sun seems to travel across the sky. In fact, Earth is the one moving. Earth spins like a top, making one full turn about every 24 hours. As it turns, the sun appears to rise in the east, climb higher in the sky, and then sink in the west.

4The height of the sun changes the length of a shadow. When the sun is low in the sky, its light hits objects at a slant, so shadows are long. When the sun is high in the sky, its light shines down from above, so shadows are short. That is why shadows are longest in the early morning and late afternoon.

5A fourth-grade class at Cedar Hill School wanted to see this for themselves. On a clear, sunny day, the students pushed a straight stick into the ground in an open part of the schoolyard. Every two hours, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., they measured the stick's shadow and recorded its length in inches. Then they made the bar graph below to show their results.

6The students noticed something else, too. The shadow did not point the same way all day. In the morning, it pointed west, away from the rising sun. By the afternoon, it pointed east.