Cooking with the Sun
Grades 3-8 40 minutes to build, 1 hour to “cook” Engineering English Language Arts
- Grade levels
- 3-8
- Duration
- 40 minutes to build, 1 hour to “cook”
- Topics
- Engineering, English Language Arts
- Standards
- 2 aligned
Engineer a solar oven and use solar energy and radiation to warm a chosen food item.
Resources
Objectives:
- 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.
Standards alignment
- English Language Arts: Speaking and Listening
- English Language Arts: Writing
