4th Grade

Mr. Yearick

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Solar Ovens 2002
 

Mr. Yearick's and Mrs. Ressler's classes have recently been learning about the sun and solar energy.  They learned that the sun produces amounts of heat and light to our Earth.  After doing several hands-on activities to prove that the sun does provide heat and to find the best way to attract it, their assignment was to invent or make their own solar oven.  They waited for a sunny day and the classes tried them out.  They made S'mores, and nachos.  They also included chocolate chip cookies in order to try to melt the chocolate chips.  Following are some of their observations. 

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My solar cooker worked with a flap with tin foil on it and foil inside of it. The inside had two triangles on each side and two trapezoids on a side, and on the outside was black foam to work as an insulation. Justin I think my solar oven worked, it melted my chocolate and melted my brownie too. Hope

My solar oven was kind of good but bugs got in it. Addison   My solar cooker was very good. Dylan

My solar power oven worked by putting it on a hill when it was sunny out. Then I put a smore and a brownie then I let them go and they got warm, ready to eat. Mara

It melted my chocolate and my marshmallow a little bit. My graham crackers were just warm. Dylan

My solar cooker didn’t work very good. It only melted my chocolate a little bit. Nathen

My solar oven worked good. It melted my chocolate and warmed my brownie. Megan

My solar oven worked! It was awesome! It turned out really gewy. At first it looked like it didn’t melt but when I opened it up Squish! It was fun. A.M.

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