Solar Oven Lab and Rubric

Solar Oven Lab

On YOUR Group Report, list only the materials that you use for your design and the other "additional" materials used for testing and recording information.

List of materials for oven (some are optional):
    Pizza box
    Construction paper
    Aluminum foil
    Clear plastic wrap
    Newspapers
    Miscellaneous-sized cardboard pieces
    toilet-paper and paper-towel rolls
    Glue
    Tape
Additional materials:
    Ruler or tape measure
    Thermometer
    Stop watch (or regular watch)
    Notebook
    Pencil


Evaluation Report
Students: ___________________________________________________________________________________________________
                 
Solar Lab - Group ______                              4=excellent   3= adequate  2= partial  1= needs work/not included           

Question and Hypothesis presented
Group presented question clearly    
Group came up with a testable hypothesis    
Materials: Groups recorded materials needed for experiment    
Procedure:    
Groups recorded all steps required to build their solar oven    
Groups drew picture(s) of setup used    
Observations: Groups presented written descriptive observations     
Groups recorded measurements (time and temperature) every 5 minutes    
Groups created a table of observations/temperature/time    
Groups created a graph of temperature/time    
Conclusion:    
Groups came up with a conclusion based on their results    
Groups recorded any “human errors” that could have altered results    
Groups described ways they could have improved their design    
Total Points:     All added together  _____ /   48