Solar Cookers

Posted by Matthew McEwen

3rd grade is studying ENERGY and the other classes were making smores using solar cookers, i decided to let them try to figure it out themselves and just gave them the materials. Most of them covered the inside of their box with aluminum (pronounced as you wish) but there were a few interesting choices. One boy decided to completely wrap the smore in foil, another just sealed the box up with tape (with the foil and smore inside), and a non speaking Korean girl just ate the uncooked smore. I learned later, from another Korean student, that she was hungry and she did not quite understand. Our conclusion was that they all melted the same in the blaring sun. Very messy.