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The document outlines a hands-on educational activity where students design and build a solar oven to cook S'mores, demonstrating the Engineering Design Process. It includes objectives, materials needed, step-by-step instructions for building and testing the solar oven, and prompts for reflection on the experiment's outcomes. The challenge emphasizes harnessing solar energy, particularly in the context of potential lunar habitats.

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What material do you need to make a solar oven?

The solar oven you build in this activity is a relatively simple one made out of a pizza box, aluminum foil, plastic wrap, and a sheet of black paper. You cut a flap out of the pizza boxs lid and line this flap with aluminum foil so that sunlight can be reflected off of the foil and into the box.

What is the best material for solar structures?

Stainless steel is used across all the solar rooftop structure. These are either hot-dipped galvanised or pre-galvanised cold rolled structures that resist most of the nature and weather conditions.

What is the best material to make a solar oven?

Aluminum is used because it is relatively cheap, easily bought, formed, and worked, and doesnt corrode easily. It is also low density, and as you need some large areas to make a large oven, why not use something not too heavy!

How to make the best solar oven?

Solar ovens must retain heat well for stable cooking. This is often accomplished by separating outside air from the air inside the oven or the cooking vessel. This can occur by a process similar to the greenhouse effect, trapping heat under the clear lid of the oven.

How hot can a homemade solar oven get?

A solar oven can reach temperatures between 200F (93C) and 400F (204C), depending on several factors such as the design of the oven, the amount of sunlight, and the cooking conditions.

Why do you put black paper in the bottom of the solar oven?

The goal is to reflect as much sunlight into the vessel as possible. The black surface absorbs and helps retain heat and the clear ``lid lets the sunlight in while trapping the heat inside through a greenhouse effect.

How to build a simple solar oven?

They are easy to build. A simple one can be made with a cardboard box, lined with tinfoil, and a piece of window glass. Cut one side off the box and replace it with window glass. Set in in the sun put a bucket of water in that thing and check your temp before and after 4-5 hours

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