Solar Oven Pizza Box Science Experiment

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Solar oven pizza box science experiment.

The solar oven you made is more correctly known as a solar cooker. The solar oven you will 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 will cut a flap out of the pizza box. Wrapped aluminium foil around the pizza box solar oven lid cut out a sheet of aluminium foil so that it is larger than the cardboard flap you have made in step one.

Here are 6 solar oven projects for kids to make. Use the tape to secure the foil. A true oven can reach temperatures far above the heat trapped inside a pizza box. To take food out of the oven open up the lid of the pizza box and using oven mitts or potholders lift the glass dish out of the oven.

2 shoe box solar oven this is very similar to the pizza box solar oven but will hold a little bit larger cooking pot. You will notice that food takes longer to cook in a solar oven than a regular one. Your cooker works on the principle of collecting heat energy and retaining or directing it for cooking. Wrap this aluminium foil around the inner side of this flap so that it faces downward into the pizza box.

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 box s lid and line this flap with aluminum foil so that sunlight can be reflected off of the foil and into the box. You covered the flap with foil so that the foil would reflect sunlight into the oven. We talked about what was happening while we waited for the s mores to bake.

So there are more menu possibilities. 1 solar bowling oven this oven consists of two nesting glass bowls and a reflector made from cardboard covered with aluminum foil. Older kids could design their own boxes or conduct scientific experiments by varying factors like the box size oven door size construction paper color cooking time outside temperature etc. Ovens like this one are called collector boxes because they collect the sunlight inside.

The black paper.