Solar Cookers

Can you design and build a hot solar cooker? Our plan is to build a cooker, test it making s'mores, and enjoy learning!

Build Day

What is a solar cooker?

1. Explain that stuff

2. How stuff works

3. Solar Cooker International

Solar Cooker are used around the world to help individuals cook their meals. For more information and pictures about cooking projects see Solar Cooker Review.

Watch the video link to see the basics of how a cooker works, why cooker are important, and how government officials are being encouraged to support their use. ASAP Video: Importance of Solar Cookers

Excellent solar example pictures:Link

How are solar cookers helping poor women in Chad? Video

Data II

Your Data!

Causes of Wind!

1. What causes wind?

2. Basic Wind Info

3. Basic But Good: Weather Wiz Kids

Weather Facts:

WORLD RECORD WIND SPEED The highest wind speed ever recorded on the surface of the Earth was 231 mph on April 12 1934, atop Mt. Washington, New Hampshire. This high-elevation weather station experienced the winds of an extremely strong jet stream that had descended unusually low in the atmosphere.

THE WIND AFFECTS THE EARTH'S ROTATION During the northern hemisphere winter, the stronger westerly winds that build up in the Northern Hemisphere, combined with frictional drag at the Earth's surface, actually produce a very small, but measurable, increase in the speed of rotation of the Earth. From: Weatherquestions.com

Density Driven Currents

Lab two Currents

Weather

Boiling Over Lab: Video

Atmospheric Pressure: Barometer

Isobar: Map, High/Low

Awesome Resources:

Forecasting Book

Canada Forecasting Book

SMMHS Science Fair 2010

Science Fair Dates

Entry Form due: February 12 by 5:00 PM

Fair: March 8-11

Helpful Links:

-Chattanooga Science Fair Entry Form, Rules, Other helpful material

-Science Buddies Great for finding a project idea!

-Paper Outline Students should type their paper according to MLA format with size 12 Times New Roman font.

-Google Documents Type your paper and have it with you everywhere you go!

-Paper Outline on Google Docs

-Noodle Tools Save yourself lots of time! Here is the place to keep your notes and references.

-Science Project Pictures 2007-2008 School Year

Space: Human Ingenuity

Sputnic

How has human ingenuity during the space race affected our world both positively and negatively?

Space Race Beginning

NASA Space Race Spinoffs

Space Debris