The Little Book of Light and Shadow
Little Books with Big Ideas (25)
1st Edition
Published on 4. June 2015
56 pages
978-1-4729-2333-2 (ISBN)
Description
Encourage your Early Learners to becom investigators by exploring the concept of light and shadow. These simple and effective activities can be carried out independently with the focus on natural resources.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-4729-2333-2 (9781472923332)
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Book
11/2013
Featherstone
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Persons
Linda Thornton has over thirty years experience in education as a teacher, headteacher, adviser and lead officer for early years. She is passionate about developing children's thinking and learning, valuing creative learning environments and encouraging educators to think about the 'why' as well as the 'how' in their approach to teaching. Linda is a director of alc associates and currently provides consultancy and training for local authorities across the UK. She is the author of several Little Books, of 'Understanding the Reggio Approach', 'Bringing the Reggio Approach to your early years practice', 'Taking the Lead' and 'Science Matters'.
Content
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- Light ...and dark
- Setting the scene
- Knowledge, skills, dispositions and feelings
- How the investigations work
- Safety
- Where does light come from?
- Who put the light out?
- Lights outside
- Special lights
- Plants and light
- Use your eyes
- Looking closely
- Seeing clearly
- How can I make a light work?
- Fairy lights
- On a sunny day
- Watching shadows move
- Can only the sun make shadows?
- Whose shadow is it?
- Shadows on the wall
- Imaginary worlds
- Make it bigger!
- Looking through
- Shadow play
- A shade for Teddy
- Useful background knowledge
- Songs, rhymes and poems
- Resources and more information
