Grade Level: 1st
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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind Activity Guide
Learners will be inspired to put their own learning and imagination into action after reading the true story of, “The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind”. This is a teacher recommended lesson from Centre of Excellence for Energy.
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Reflections with an Engineer
Students analyze their data from previous lessons and reflect about how solar technology and their structures kept the ground (earth’s surface) cooler.
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Add Solar Panel Redesign, Rebuild, Retest
Adding solar panels, motors, and fans to existing student built structures; students will observe temperature changes on the ground below their structure.
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Keeping it Cool with Solar Unit
Students will learn about cool and warm temperatures and apply their understanding to build a playground structure that keeps us cool on a hot day. Students are introduced to the engineering design process as they modify their designs.
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Structure Test
Utilizing thermo infrared thermometers and student built structures from Keeping it Cool with Solar Build Time, students analyze how structures change the suns affect the Earth’s surface.
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Build Time
Building the structures designed during Keeping it Cool with Solar: Design Time. Students use the phenomena of Engineers build with triangles to inspire their structures to create shade.
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Design Time
Students will learn the phenomena of how engineers use triangles to build. They will design their own structures to create shade.
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Making Shade
Students will observe the phenomena of how trees make different types of shade and use different types of paper to create different levels of shade.
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Hot Spot/Cool Spot
Students will investigate the phenomena of melting ice and solar heat on the playground