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Distance Learning with the sun, solar ovens, s'mores hot dogs, or crayons!! PLEASE READ: This is a PDF file! It was made as a PDF so it could be put into different platforms for digital learning. It is not interactive. It is a lesson that can be sent to students to work on at their own pace! It can be uploaded into Google Classroom as a PDF to use or onto other platforms. It is just meant to guide and direct students as they work on their own pace. (mini lesson with STEM challenge)

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This lesson was created for my own students! Heat energy is a 3rd grade Georgia Science Standard. I was looking for a fun activity for students to complete at home as the weather warms up outside. I figured what better way to review heat energy or to learn about heat would be with solar ovens and STEM! This is built to be a mini lesson about the sun, and solar/heat energy (through a video) and then they are encouraged to create their own solar oven (after watching a man cook an entire chicken in a solar oven) to "cook" a s'more, hot dog, or even a crayon in!!

The lesson starts with the story Sun! One in a Billion (the links are not mine). Then it gives several different video links on solar energy. The last video is a man who built his own solar oven to cook an entire chicken with. It will open their eyes and hopefully hook them! (My kids love this video - they are always amazed!)

Then it gives students the challenge, materials, constraints, planning, and testing. Again, students are asked to engineer their own solar oven to cook with at home! They can cook a s'more, hot dog, or even create a new crayon design. They can email their pictures to you the teacher! Or they can send videos explaining what they created and how the solar oven works! They can simply use scrap paper to plan and design! It is also meant to be a fun and engaging way for students to learn about solar/heat energy at home!! And...my hope is that it takes some pressure off of parents...in that it is not a worksheet...but a way for kids to use their own thinking and space to engineer and design solar ovens at home!

This also meets Georgia Science Standards of Excellence - S3P1

This resources includes the following:

*Video links to story: Sun! One in a Billion

*Links to videos on solar energy

*Links to video on solar oven

*Challenge

*Constraints

*Materials list

*Planning

*Planning Sheet for printing for student if they would like to.

*Testing Slide

*Teacher Notes

*At home field trip notes - Field trip to record the sun, heat, and time of day to determine the best place to cook with using their solar ovens!

*Field trip recording sheet if they would like to use it!

*Student Examples (S'mores and crayons)

I create these resources to be used in my own classroom! I teach from this very same file! It is a good visual for students and if you were to be observed by administration. It helps to guide you with the lesson and gives the students a visual of what is expected. I work super hard on these lessons because I want my students to be engaged, have fun, and enjoy learning while they are in my classroom! I try to create real-world lessons where students have to engineer and design the solution.
It also gives them something to take home to hopefully explain the "process" of what they learned to adults at home! Please feel free to ask my questions and leave helpful feedback!! Thank you so much!!!

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