Solar Energy

Solar Energy

Aim: To find out which color attracts the suns heat.

Hypothesis: I think black attracts more heat because it's a darker color. 

Materials:

1.  White paper
2.  Black paper
3.  Tin foil
4.  Heat lamp
5. Styrofoam cup
6. Clear cup

Steps

1. Get your materials and get in a group of three or four 
2. Put your tin foil and black plastic around the two cups
3.  Put the heat lamp on and wait for the minutes on the chart 
4.  after your timer is up put the thermometer into the water for one minute 
5.  Take out the thermometer out of the water and put a timer for another one minute 
6. Record what the result was. 

Findings:

In this photo, it includes three cups and a heat lamp two of the cups are covered and one is not, one of them is covered with a black garbage bag, and the other is covered with tin foil. the other cup is just a normal styrofoam cup, in each cup, there is 1/4 of water in all three cups. 

Time	Cup 1 White	Cup 2 Black	Cup 3 Tinfoil
0	16	16	16
15	18	18	17
30	17	18	18
45

Conclusion

Activity:

In pairs rate the livability of coal vs solar energy.

Comparing Coal energy with Solar energy ( Rate; 1 = poor to 10 = great)

Factor	Solar	Coal
Livability
Sustainability
Accessibility
Cost
Your choice...

Solar Sharing ( from 2040)

Water Cycle

Title	Water Cycle
Purpose	To see how a water cycle works
Materials	Ziplock Bag Marker(any color) Draw a water cycle Name the section Hot water  Blue food coloring Two-sided sticky tape
Steps	Take zip lock bag   draw the water cycle  Name the sections of the water cycle Take hot water and put in a ¼ of water in the  Put two drops of blue food coloring  Close zip lock bag put two-sided tape on both ends of the plastic bag  And attach to a window  Take a zip lock bag  Draw the water cycle Put two-sided sticky tape on both ends Attach litmus paper to top end Put ¼ of soda water in a ziplock bag Put two drops of blue food coloring  Put a teaspoon of baking soda in bag  Close tight Attach to window
Conclusion	I think the outcome of this experiment will be... The first bag will be very misty and humid almost as if your standing on top of a misty mountain in the rain forest, but I think it will look like an old water bottle with the fog inside of it. I think the other bag will just turn into a really groggy blueish white powder water, like an old expired protein mix.

It was quite fun learning about gases and how they effect our earth, I was quite intregred when I Learnt what a water cycle was. after we learnt the names of different type of gas names, after the explaing was finished when got into a group of three.