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Cooking with the Sun
Grade Levels: 3-8 | Duration: 40 minutes to build, 1 hour to “cook”
Engineer a solar oven and use solar energy and radiation to warm a chosen food item.
(Lab Connection: Simplicity of Electricity Lab)
Engineer a solar oven and use solar energy and radiation to warm a chosen food item.
(Lab Connection: Simplicity of Electricity Lab)
Grade Levels: 3-5
Duration: Solar radiation, solar energy, solar reflection, greenhouse effect
Concepts/Skills: Solar radiation, solar energy, solar reflection, greenhouse effect
Objectives: Students will:
- Create a working solar oven capable of warming a chosen food item.
- Create a graph showing temperature increase inside their solar oven over a given period of time.