Solar Challenge

Description

Challenge your students to build a collector to boil water with energy from the sun. The Solar Challenge curriculum:

• help students experience energy transformations,
• grapple with core ideas about energy,
• practice employing engineering strategies
• help them to experience how energy can be harnessed in ways that do not negatively impact our environment or our climate.

The Solar Challenge curriculum focuses on the ways energy is transformed and used for a variety of purposes in our daily lives. Students consider different forms of energy, exchanges between those forms, and then focus the bulk of their learning in this unit on the sun, an abundant, renewable source of energy. They learn to harness the sun’s energy to heat water by building and testing a solar concentrator that transforms radiant energy from sunlight into thermal energy that heats water.

Build a solar collector to heat water with energy from the sun!

WHAT’S IN THE KIT?

Kit includes: Reflective mylar, thermometers, mirrors, utility knives, mini-collector patterns, conduction and convection experiment & demonstration materials and more.

Kit size: 2 large plastic totes, 1 roll mylar, 1 tube straight edges