Solar Cookers for Learning about Materials, Energy, Sensing, and Society 2016 07 16 AAPT W45
Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2016 3:33 am
Workshop description as it appears in catalog
Sacramento is the home of Solar Cookers International, a longstanding research and advocacy organization that has been disseminating designs and practices for solar cooking. EnergyTeachers.org is a network of educators interested in energy production and use, started by physics teachers. Workshop participants will learn about how SCI researches and teaches about solar cookers and how educators from EnergyTeachers.org have been teaching physics with the cookers. Participants will build a cooker, use electronic sensors, cook something in the sun, and take the cookers and sensors home. Activities and concepts will include data-logging, digital and analog, automatic and manual; selective materials, examined in multiple wavelengths; infrared thermography; heat capacity; power; engineering design; pasteurization; replacing cooking fuels; diverse cooking methods for diverse situations; curriculum scope and sequence; and attitudes about women’s work and about engineering to 'save the world.'
Organizer
Shawn Reeves
Agenda
Sacramento is the home of Solar Cookers International, a longstanding research and advocacy organization that has been disseminating designs and practices for solar cooking. EnergyTeachers.org is a network of educators interested in energy production and use, started by physics teachers. Workshop participants will learn about how SCI researches and teaches about solar cookers and how educators from EnergyTeachers.org have been teaching physics with the cookers. Participants will build a cooker, use electronic sensors, cook something in the sun, and take the cookers and sensors home. Activities and concepts will include data-logging, digital and analog, automatic and manual; selective materials, examined in multiple wavelengths; infrared thermography; heat capacity; power; engineering design; pasteurization; replacing cooking fuels; diverse cooking methods for diverse situations; curriculum scope and sequence; and attitudes about women’s work and about engineering to 'save the world.'
Organizer
Shawn Reeves
Agenda
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1. Introductions
2. Expectations
1. Designs
2. Questions
3. Cooking
4. Documentation
3. Everyone draw or write instructions for a solar cooker.
4. SCI
1. Materials
2. SCI’s work around the world
3. Joining SCI
5. ETO
1. Scope of ETO’s work
2. Ways to get involved with ETO
6. Materials
1. Reflector
2. Transmitter
3. Insulator
7. Infrared and visible light
8. Design
1. Concentration
1. How to estimate power of concentration—Reverse the light path—Be the sun, and see how many reflections of the target you can see from far in front, the perspective of the sun. Show a photo taken from the front.
2. Classifications
1. Panel
2. Box
3. Parabolic
4. Lens
5. Oven
6. Jar
7. Bag
3. Insulation
4. Wind
5. Portability
6. Tracking
1. Solar electric tracking
2. Solar hydraulic tracking
3. Leading the sun manually
4. Understanding the sun’s path—See sun’s path activity.
9. Power
1. Power in, power out, net cooking power
2. Different power designs for different recipes
3. Modes of energy transfer
4. Practice analyzing temperature and time graphs to determine power.
5. Terminal maximum temperature, power equilibrium.
10. Measuring temperature
1. Temperature history device: WAPI
2. IR camera
3. IR camera/thermometer limited by IR-blocking enclosure.
4. Thermocouples
5. Oven thermometer
11. Cooking as a medium for learning physics
1. Women’s work
2. Food to enjoy
3. Place in scope and sequence
1. Relevant physical concepts. e.g., temperature, electromagnetic spectrum, power, energy, forms of energy, reflection, path of light,
4. Questions to test understanding: e.g. How might you change sunoven to act as a cooler? What should the color of the inside of an oven be?
5. Necessary research