Be an Engineer and a Scientist!
Click on the images below to find directions to build your very own solar cooker & harness the sun's heat to cook up a tasty treat!
PBSKids.org - Solar Cookers
Science Project for Kids - Build a Solar Oven
How To Make a Solar Powered Oven for Kids
Reflective Solar Cooker
Going Green Challenge - Solar Oven for Kids
Build a Simple Solar Cooker
Click on the links below for recipes using your solar cooker!
If you have ever worn a dark shirt on a hot day, you know that dark colors get very hot in the sunlight. That's because dark colors absorb more of the sun's rays than light colors do.
Most solar cookers have a dark surface so the heat can be trasferred to the food, which makes the food cook faster.
Reflective surfaces -- the tinfoil or metal -- on a solar cooker are very important. The shiny surface helps direct the sunlight toward the dark cooking surface.
Image from: http://www.firstnews.co.uk/news/students-cover-professors-office-in-tin-foil-i2087
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Jenn McMahon