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The school canteen's oven has stopped working and they need help cooking lunches. Room 12 has been asked to design a solar oven to address this problem. Students will research existing solar oven designs, draft 3 potential designs, select 1 to build, and evaluate their prototype. Their design must use aluminum foil and meet specifications for cooking food safely. Students will present their design and a brochure explaining how it works to the canteen staff.

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Solar Oven 1

The school canteen's oven has stopped working and they need help cooking lunches. Room 12 has been asked to design a solar oven to address this problem. Students will research existing solar oven designs, draft 3 potential designs, select 1 to build, and evaluate their prototype. Their design must use aluminum foil and meet specifications for cooking food safely. Students will present their design and a brochure explaining how it works to the canteen staff.

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Solar Oven

The school canteen needs your help!


Their oven has stopped working but they still need to cook all the lunches. The canteen
has asked Room 12 to come up with a solution to fix the problem - they need you to
make a Solar Oven!

Brief Generating Ideas


Your task is to come up with a solar oven You will need to draft 3 possible designs for
design which will harness the power of the sun the solar oven. Once you have crested 3 draft
to help the canteen cook their lunches. designs, you will need to choose only 1 to build.

Remember to ask yourself "Does my design


match the design brief?".

Project Specifications Project Management


Your solar oven must follow these Step 1: Research solar ovens to gain an
specifications: understanding of the specific design needs.
Step 2: Create 3 draft design ideas for your
Must use aluminum foil solar oven.
Must be made from clean materials Step 3: Choose 1 design from the drafted ideas.
Step 4: Research and identify the materials to 
be used (make sure you refer to Project 
Project Evaluation Specifications). 
Step 5: Produce/Create a prototype of your final 
Once you have completed your final product, 
design. 
you will create a design information brochure. 
Step 6: Evaluate your solar oven
The brochure should include a labelled diagram 
& create a design information brochure. 
and address/answer the following questions:
 Step 7: Present your product.
Are the materials used suitable to be used
around food? Why?
Will your solar oven heat substances faster Project Presentation
than the sun? Do an experiment to find out.
 Once you have completed your solar
How does the aluminum speed up the
oven, you will have to present you design to
heating process?
the canteen staff. You will present your design
along with the design information brochure.
Time You must create a 'slogan' to accompany your
design, which will help the canteen staff in
This project will be completed alongside the
their decision making.
chemical science unit of work. If you finish
your classwork early or have spare time you
can use it to work on your design. A change of state between solid and liquid can
Design presentations will happen at the end of be caused by adding or removing heat
the term. (ACSSU046)
STEM Curriculum Links
Science:
A change of state between solid and liquid can be caused by adding or removing heat
(ACSSU046)

Technology:
Ways products, services and environments are designed to meet community needs
(ACTDEK010)
Suitability and safe practice when using materials, tools and equipment for a range of
purposes (ACTDEK013)
Use criteria to evaluate design processes and solutions developed (WATPPS19)

Mathematics:
Tell time to the minute and investigate the relationship between units of time (ACMMG062)
Collect data, organise into categories and create displays using lists, tables, picture graphs and
simple column graphs, with and without the use of digital technologies (ACMSP069)
Interpret and compare data displays (ACMSP070)

Research Links

https://kids.kiddle.co/Solar_cooker
https://www.scienceforkidsclub.com/solar-
oven.html
https://www.britannica.com/technology/solar-
oven
https://climatekids.nasa.gov/smores/
https://www.sunshineonmyshoulder.com/6-
homemade-solar-oven-projects-for-kids/

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Kids Kiddle Britanica Climate Kids
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