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Purpose

To see if the homemade solar oven is able to cook a s’more. While testing the sun and the heat it gives off.

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Problem /Question

Can a homemade solar cook and melt chocolate and marshmallows?

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Design/plan

Cut a square hole on top of a pizza box cover the hole with saran wrap and use the leftover square piece and cover one side with tin foil and face it toward the whole in the box to hold up the piece of cardboard use skewers and face towards the sun

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Create /Procedure

NOTICE MAKE SURE YOU HAVE PARENT OR GARDIEN SUPERVISION AT ALL TIMES

#1. Take a cardboard pizza box and cut a large square on the top of the pizza box (Do not throw anything away).

#2. Next cover the square with saran wrap to hold it down us tape or hot glue.

#3. Now take the little square piece of cardboard that you cut out earlier and cover one side of it with tinfoil.

#4. Next face the tinfoil half of the square towards the hole and hold it up with sticks for extra support [use tape if needed].

#5. Last put your marshmallows and chocolate in the box and and let the sun do its thing and your done.

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Explore/Hypothesis

If I make a homemade solar oven and put marshmallows and chocolate in it then the marshmallows and chocolate will melt and cook. Depending on the temperature and weather conditions during the experiment.

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Materials/Tools

#1. A medium size Pizza box

#2. a pair scissors or knife

#3. 2 rolls of Tape or use a hot glue gun[ ONLY grownups use the hot glue gun]

#4. 2 Skewers

#5. A roll of tin foil

#6. A roll of saran wrap

#7.a bag of mini marshmallows

#8. 1 chocolate bar

#9. 1 pack of gram crackers

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Data

Test one: Current temperature outside is 63 degrees. Partly cloudy. Solar Oven was placed in the direction of the sun at 3:00. Nothing melted or cooked

Test two current temperature outside 68 degrees. Sunny a bit cloudy. The solar oven was placed in the direction of the sun at 3:00. The chocolate melted but the marshmallows got stale due to the weather.

Test three: Current temperature outside 72 degrees. Lots of sun some clouds. The solar oven was placed in the direction of the sun at 3:00. The chocolate melted and the marshmallows soft

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Share /Conclusions

The Solar Oven does work but only depending on the temperature. If it is winding the oven may not work so well if it is sunny the oven will work great. So depending on the temperature is depending on how the Solar Oven will work. So the first day it was too cold but the next two days my chocolate melted but then hardened back up when the sun went down but day two it was windy so the marshmallows got stale. Day three the chocolate melted and the marshmallows got soft.

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Improve/Test

The third time I did my test it worked the best because it was hotter outside. To get these results I had to wait for the perfect day were it was hotter outside for my project to work

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Real world connections

This project uses heat energy instead of electricity. The sun is helpful in many ways.

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Photos

MAKE SURE YOU HAVE HAD PARENT SUPERVISION AT ALL TIMES