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Solar Cookers

Subject: Design Technologies

Year level: 5 & 6

Strand: Knowledge and understanding – Sub strand: Technologies and society

How people address competing considerations, including sustainability when designing products, services and environments for current and future use (ACTDEK019)

Strand: Processes and production skills – Sub strand: Creating solutions by: Designing

Design, modify, follow and represent both diagrammatically, and in written text, alternative solutions using a range of techniques, appropriate technical terms and technology.

Link: http://www.hometrainingtools.com/a/build-a-solar-oven-project/

Cross-curriculum Priorities:

Sustainability

General Capabilities:

Literacy

Numeracy

Critical and creative thinking

Personal and social capability

Ethical understanding

Links to other learning areas: Science –

Physical Sciences – Light from a source forms shadows and can be absorbed, reflected and refracted (ACSSU080)

How to use this idea in the classroom:

Literacy: Design a brochure or advertisement outlining the benefits of solar power compared with other non-renewable types of energy. Describe how to construct a solar oven, what is needed and outline some pros and cons of the use of them.

ICT: Use the ABC splash website and solar oven activity in order to test out different designs and materials that could be used in the construction of their own solar oven.

Design and Technology: Using digital technologies, students will research different solar oven designs. From this research, students will use a range of recycled materials to design and build their own oven. Once these ovens are complete, they will be tested on a sunny day to cook a snack.

Science: Students will investigate how they can use different materials in order to manipulate the sun’s rays.

Geoboard

Geoboard App

Subject: Digital technologies

Year level: F-6

Strand: Processes and production skills – Sub-strands: Designing, Producing and implementing

Link: https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/geoboard-by-math-learning/id519896952?mt=8

http://www.mathlearningcenter.org/web-apps/geoboard/

 

Cross curriculum priorities: Mathematics

General capabilities:

Literacy

Numeracy

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) capability

Critical and Creative Thinking

How to use this idea in the classroom:

Mathematics: Commonly used to explore basic concepts in plane geometry such as area, perimeter and the characteristics of triangles and polygons. Geo boards can be used in the foundation and early years for familiarizing students with different shapes and giving them an opportunity to create their own shapes. In the later years, this app and website can be used to represent and practice problems involving fractions.

During the foundation years of school, these geo boards can be used in order to develop fine motor skills and foster a positive relationship with mathematics.