Audience
Educators
Grade Levels
Grades 5-8, Grades 9-12
Subject
Physical Science, Chemistry, Energy, Flight and Aeronautics, Forces and Motion
Type
Lesson Plans / Activities
FUTURE FLIGHT
Solar Power
This Solar Power activity will build a solar powered car that runs on sunlight. This activity is based on a science kit called the by Thames & Kosmos Fuel Cell Car and Experiment Kit (Fuel cells are covered in another Museum in a Box module.) A series of experiments introduce visitors and students to solar energy and solar cell technology.
Grade Level: 5-12
Time Required: 30 minutes
National Science Standards Addressed:
Science 5-8:
- Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry
- Understanding about scientific inquiry
- Properties and changes of properties in matter
- Motions and forces
- Transfer for energy
- Abilities of technological design
- Understanding about science and technology
Science 9-12:
- Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry
- Understanding about scientific inquiry
- Structure of atoms
- Structure and properties of matter
- Chemical reactions
- Motion and forces
- Interaction of energy and matter
- Abilities of technological design
- Understanding about science and technology
Topic: Energy, Solar Cells, Alternative Energy, Radiation