1st Kindergarten of Pylos
Activities about light
- sources of light
- rectilinear propagation of light
- formation of shadows
- artistic practical implementation: shadow theatre
Our activities for light and shadow:https://youtu.be/AvqhXm3c0xc
Activities about the sun
- We started from earthquakes then planet "Earth" and our solar system
- Then observations of the apparent movement of the sun from east to west during the day and the solar noon when the shadow is the shortest and the sun at its higher point.
Our solar system... made from play doh
Observations in the coutyard
Activities about Eratosthenes
The experiments
| May | June |
June measures [ top ⇑ ]
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June gallery
May measures [ top ⇑ ]
| Date | Gnomon (cm) | Shadow (cm) | Angle (°) |
| 27/05/2015 | 77 | 26 | 18.7 |
May gallery
Activities about the seasons
Comparing their observations during the year, they observe that the shadows are the shortest in summer and longest in winter.
Collaborative activity with a kindergarden in Argentina
Eratosthenes in 1st Kindergarten of Pylos (Greece) and kindergarten "Vicente Lopez y Planes" Anisacate (Argentina)
on "La main a la Pâte " website