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title: "Year 6 Science - Changing the Size of a Shadow"
url: "https://darwenstjames.co.uk/news/2024-11-14-year-6-science-changing-the-size-of-a-shadow"
school: "Darwen St James’ C of E Primary Academy"
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# Year 6 Science - Changing the Size of a Shadow

  ![](https://files.schudio.com/darwen-st-james-c-of-e-primary-academy/images/news/Collage_2024-11-11_14_50_07.jpg)   14 November 2024

This week in Science Year 6 have been investigating how to change the size of a shadow. After thinking about working scientifically and how to conduct a fair test, we performed an investigation to test against our predictions.

![](https://darwenstjames.co.uk/images/Collage_2024-11-11_14_50_07.jpg)

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