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Shadows & Light, Science & Puppetry Lesson PlanShadows & Light, Science & Puppetry Lesson Plan
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Shadows & Light, Science & Puppetry

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Lights, shadows, action, and inquiry await your artistic scientists. They explore the way light travels, absorbs, reflects, and transmits through shadow play. They create folktale-inspired shadow puppets, explore the science of light, and put on a shadow puppet play. Such a cool lesson plan!

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shadow puppets, puppetry, creativity, properties of light, light

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creative expression, inquiry, properties of light, reflection, shadow puppets, art project, light absorption, light transmission, light travel, exploring shadows, science
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5th - 8th
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Science
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