Over the past several weeks, you have been learning more about the ways in which humans have used solar energy to make their lives easier. When your group spent time with Ms. Atkins, you worked to create a Solar Energy timeline, that described events and advancements in the use of solar energy from ancient times until today.
Take a moment to reflect on some of the amazing things that you learned.
What information surprised you? Why?
What new information did you learn?
What questions do you still have?
What would you like to learn next?
Take a moment to post your thoughts in response in the blog.
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I think that with the black paper it will be the hottest adn with the white paper it will be less hot. with the mirror i think it will be the leat hot because it will shoot the reflecting electrons out
Sean Nicholson
What surprised me was that they had a solar built solar powered motor in 1892. That surprised me because they did not have a lot of other solar stuff then. I would like to learn how solar energy works like that.
In Ms. Atkins' group we learned a lot of things. An interesting fact i learned was that there were solar panels on the White House. President Jimmy Carter installed them. I am very excited for the solar car lab tomorrow and i hope i can come! I am looking foward to learning how do build one.
I have earned so much about solar energy and the history of the amazing things that people used the solar light for (in simpler words; what people used sunlight for). I was surprised about some of the information that I had researched about. Who ever heard of self heating aqua ducts? How did the sun heat all the water from the underwater springs that filtered into the Roman Baths? The sun did amazing things and it still does now. I never new the real reason for having skylights and glass greenhouses. Now I know that the glass was used to let the light in to warm and feed plants.
One thing that I would like to learn about the sun is what it is made of. Well, of course I know that it's made of fire, but does it have a core, a crust, a mantle? Will it ever cool? If it does, will it be on time for future scientists to travel there? Or will earth perish before that ever happens? If the sun dies, what will be the next star closest to earth? Why are all stars not call suns just like different planets have different moons? Do other planets have suns closer to them than our sun? Are there more suns past the asteroid belt? These are all my questions, and I think that at least two of them were answered, my curiosity would be satisfied...for now.
The next thing that I really want to learn about is water. I already know so much about water, but I feel that there are countless of other things to learn besides the knowledge that I already have. I really want to know that if water will never go away (dinosaur pee is in the water we drink), then why are people so worried about the levels of water that they have? There is always a solid amount of water on earth, why do people always say that there won't be enough water for us all? I mean, it's still here, it's in the earth, the air, food, clouds, and the sky, and will it ever go away?
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