In science this week, we posed the question 'How can observing and measuring shadows help us demonstrate the spinning of the earth?' We discussed possible ways to carry out this experiment and decided that we would track the sun's shadows. Throughout the day, we drew and measured the lengths of the shadows cast by a pole. We found out that as the day progressed the shadows became shorter. Unfortunately in the afternoon, the cloud cover increased so much that we were unable to carry on.
We all really enjoyed this and could clearly see that the earth does indeed spin because the shadows moved.
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