Experiments On Solar Panels

Have a discussion and make predictions about what you think will happen to the water in each glass.

Experiments on solar panels.

Have your child make a guess on which cube will melt faster. As the one in the sun turns into a puddle first explain that the heat energy from the sun made it melt faster. Cover one of the glasses on white paper with plastic. Place the cubes outside in your backyard on a sunny but not too hot day.

Measure the water temperature and set one cup on each paper. Or analyze how solar cells or panels work. Fill each cup with the same amount of liquid of the same cool temperature. The experiments test how radiation and rocket launches could affect dye sensitized solar cells which the students say are safer and easier to make than traditional solar panels.

Currently reading nasa sending connecticut students solar panel experiments to space. Place one cube directly in the sun and the other in full shade.