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Shadows on the Move! First Graders at Riccardi Elementary Track the Sun’s Mysteries
One recent morning, they started by tracing each other’s shadows, and then later on in the day, when the Sun was high in the sky, they traced them again. You can bet there were some “Whoa!” and “Look at that!” moments as they saw their shadows shift!
Way to go, future scientists! Keep solving those mysteries, one shadow at a time!
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