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From 2023-2025, I am directing the High School Physics Photo Contest at American Association of Physics Teachers.
https://aapt.org/Programs/PhotoContest/index.cfm

As a physics teacher, and grader of thousands of lab reports, I can't accept this.
Would you like to revise this report so it has clear procedures and observations, not just obscure analysis? Also, clear grammar will help you express what you mean to express. Perhaps a co-author can help with the ...

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We have a library of thousands of books, journals, pieces of curriculum materials, and equipment at our lab. Local educators visit, learn, and develop plans.
We visit schools to consult with teachers to create and improve lessons about energy and electronics.
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Using the free online tool GeoGebra I created a manipulative graph of parallel rays reflecting from panels toward a target. Students can move panels to see how orientation affects the concentration of sunlight onto a target vessel.
https://www.geogebra.org/calculator/sktukbe9

From Sabah Chinese High School in Tawau Malaysia, this demonstration and explanation about building and using a solar cooker: https://youtu.be/77vReSBjlyU

Cooking with a huge homemade solar oven in Mexico, including a discussion of trapping light with a dark bottom plate: https://youtu.be/TW1V0KtUaeQ
A comprehensive introduction to solar cookers, with scientific, engineering, and culinary concepts: https://youtu.be/eMvkjc7dQ30

Como Construir un ...

Forno solar: https://youtu.be/9Y0BGhlRIqY

Al Jazeera story from their series, Stories of the Simple: Abu Jamil, a displaced Syrian from the northern countryside of Idlib, managed to make a cooking device in the sun using simple tools:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5T9ctk-T73k
Orient TV story on cooking independent of fossil fuels in ...

Please reply with videos in any language that helps students understand scientific, engineering, and culinary concepts about solar cooking.

Materials
What do we need to learn using solar cookers? Materials for the cookers, cooking vessels, meters, safety equipment:

Reflective material: Mirrors, aluminized mylar, aluminum foil, reflective tape, polished metal...
Shaped reflector panels, if the reflective material doesn't already ...

A quick guide to using and teaching about infrared cameras.
WindowsAndPaperCranes.jpg
The photographer facing "clear" glass will get a self-portrait. This shows how taking an IR picture of glass does not show much about the glass, it shows a reflection of something usually irrelevant to a heat ...

Here's where you can see data since 2016 for the photovoltaic production at Walden Pond Visitor Center in Concord, Massachusetts.
As of 2020, the system is 105kW, with eight inverters.
https://monitoringpublic.solaredge.com/solaredge-web/p/site/public?name=Walden%20Pond%20Visitor%20Center&locale=en ...

Before and after visiting a field trip site, or even just for a virtual field trip, students can see how photovoltaic systems at the site are producing electricity. For some sites, users can see animations of the production of each module each 15 minutes, so they can watch shadows proceed over the ...

Here's a huge list of field trip ideas for states and provinces:
https://www.homeschoolbuyersco-op.org/field-trips/

https://www.circuit-lab.com
Circuit Lab offers dozens of after school and summer camp programs for ages 6-14. Circuit Lab can also take circuit curriculum to schools. Experienced circuits-educators should note that they often need to hire lead and assistant instructors for these programs.
They ...