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This human sundial activity is super user friendly and can be done just about anywhere. All you need is humans and the sun in the sky! It is a great way to explain to a young learner how we can tell time is passing. Parents and educators can ask the student during random parts of the day what time it is and they can use the skills from this lesson to answer. A more experienced scholar can make predictions about what will happen to the length of their shadow and design their own sundial using the activity links at the bottom of the resource. Further inquiry can be done by encouraging the scholars to engage in this activity with friends by sending pictures to each other and making it a game to guess what time it is.