Solar
Sun Angle Quadrant Activity
Worksheet:
SunAngleQuadrant.pdf
- Links
Highest Temperature Activity
- Activity Worksheet HighestTemperatureActivity.pdf
Pizza Box Ovens
- Activity 1: building the pizza box oven|
- Activity 2: prepare for cooking
- Activity 3: gathering information
- On your wikipages, define the following terms and create hyperlinks to the sites that you found the information
- Solar Gain, Insulation, passive solar, thermal mass
- Describe what energy conversion is happening to get the oven to work
- On your wikipages, define the following terms and create hyperlinks to the sites that you found the information
- Activity 4: Testing
- Take your pizza box oven out to the courtyard along with a labquest and sensor. Simulate using/aiming your oven all the while observing and collecting in your comp book temperatures reached. Your goal is to get the highest temperature possible.
- After testing, make changes / alterations if needed to improve your oven
- Activity 5: Cooking
- Set out your oven as quickly as you can at the beginning of the period or even before. Make sure you aim correctly. Take an ambient temperature reading and note that in your comp book.
- While things are cooking, monitor the temperature. You are to record the highest temperature you reached up on your wikipage, along with the beginning ambient temperature
- Make note of the angle of your reflector flap and put on your wikipage.
- Take 1 to 5 pictures of the oven and the results. Put pictures up on your wiki. Resize and caption
- Eat, then cleanup
- Activity 6: End of activity
- Make sure you have on your wiki: Title, ambient temperature, highest temperature, angle of your reflector flap, and 1 to 5 pictures (resized, captioned)
- Complete the evaluation form (see your main wikipage for your period)
- Other Resources
- NOAA Solar Calculator
- Check out this animation for making pizza box oven: YouTube – animation for pizza box oven
- Why solar cook?
Thermal Solar Links
- Other oven plans
- Fun panel
- Many different plans
- Allseason solar
Website TemplatePlans - How do solar ovens work?
- Guide to solar ovens
- Pictures of various types of solar ovens
- Solar Cookers Worldwide Network
- Rocket Stoves – Cleaner stoves for the world’s poor
- Solar over plans
- Sun oven company – who around the world uses solar ovens?
- Journey to Forever – Charity giving out Solar ovens
- Fun panel
Batteries
- Battery University
Plenty of information about all kinds of batteries. Especially scroll down the page to the series and parallel circuit sections
Dovetail Solar Presentation
- PowerPoint
Circuits
Solar End of Unit Activity
- Solar and Circuits Test
