Solar Oven Pizza Box Science Experiment

Build and use a simple solar oven.

Solar oven pizza box science experiment.

1 solar bowling oven this oven consists of two nesting glass bowls and a reflector made from cardboard covered with aluminum foil. Your cooker works on the principle of collecting heat energy and retaining or directing it for cooking. You will cut a flap out of the pizza box. The heat from the sun is trapped inside of your pizza box solar oven and it starts getting very hot.

We talked about what was happening while we waited for the s mores to bake. On a sunny warm day your oven could reach about 200 degrees f. 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 notice that food takes longer to cook in a solar oven than a regular one. The black paper. You covered the flap with foil so that the foil would reflect sunlight into the oven. 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.

So there are more menu possibilities. 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. 2 shoe box solar oven this is very similar to the pizza box solar oven but will hold a little bit larger cooking pot. Ovens like this one are called collector boxes because they collect the sunlight inside.

A true oven can reach temperatures far above the heat trapped inside a pizza box. Here are 6 solar oven projects for kids to make. 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. Wrap this aluminium foil around the inner side of this flap so that it faces downward into the pizza box.

Easy solar oven project supplies.