Back when I was a kid in school (the mid 80s) they were introducing us to something strange and new. If I asked my kids to guess what that was, they would probably say the wheel. They would be wrong, it was the computer.
Look at where we are now with computers. My wife has a spare computer the size of a trade paperback that is probably more than 1000 times more powerful than the PCs that lined the back of my 10th grade physics class.
I was overjoyed to read on GreenLAGirl about an elementary school in Los Angeles that is going grid neutral. There’s an awesome photo on her blog with kids taking a close look at a solar panel. I don’t know if the idea of generating power from the sun will grab kids the same way that 20 goto 10 grabbed me and my friends, but anything is possible.
One of my kids once used the power of the sun and a magnifying glass to start a fire in her grandma’s house. I wasn’t there, but I heard it was quite educational.
Building a solar panel is a great science fair project for older kids. I would like to see projects that can be used to charge up iPods or AA batteries long after the fair is over.
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