Project Activities

Throughout the SEAA project years quite a variety of solar energy activities, solar applications and constructions have been approached by learners and teachers. It seems that the initial idea to create a core set of basic activities for all partners and a peripheral set of activities to be developed independently and/or in collaboration with partner schools, has turned out to be a rather feasible one and has left us with a potential for the third and last project year. In this page the set of core project activities is presented and you may download and use the relevant documents, provided that the appropriate reference source is kindly acknowledged.

Solar Energy experimental activities and simple constructions for  2005-2006

	Having fun with a pizza box solar cooker	".pdf" (150 KB)
	Constructing a solar box cooker, without a top lid and with one reflector	".pdf" (746 KB)
	Heat from the Sun: Experiments with simple solar collectors, heating up water in plastic bags	".pdf" (179 KB)
	Constructing a simple solar water heater with a collector and a bottle tank	".pdf" (572 KB)
	Experiments with photovoltaic cells and motors	".pdf" (202 KB)
	Constructing a solar toy car with a photovoltaic cell and a motor	".pdf" (402 KB)

Solar Energy experimental activities and simple constructions for  2006-2007

	Constructing a collapsible open panel solar cooker with two pieces of cardboard	".pdf" (284 KB)
	Constructing an open panel solar cooker with two reflectors inside a box	".pdf" (484 KB)
	Constructing a portable open panel solar cooker with two pieces of cardboard	".pdf" (427 KB)
	Constructing a model greenhouse	".pdf" (393 KB)
	Experimenting with simple solar collectors out of aluminium containers of various sizes	".pdf" (370 KB)
	Constructing a spiral solar water heater with a collector and a bottle tank	".pdf" (543 KB)
	Constructing a solar catamaran with a photovoltaic cell and a motor	".pdf" (337 KB)

Solar Energy experimental activities and simple constructions for  2007-2008

	Experimenting with “hot boxes”…	".pdf" (260 KB)
	Constructing an open panel solar cooker by tearing apart a cardboard box	".pdf" (414 KB)
	Constructing the “CooKit”: a foldable, open panel solar cooker	".pdf" (918 KB)
	Constructing a solar dehydrator out of one cardboard box	".pdf" (562 KB)
	Constructing a solar dehydrator out of two cardboard boxes	".pdf" (1052 KB)
	Constructing a classic solar water heater with a horizontal and vertical tube arrangement	".pdf" (367 KB)
	Constructing solar boats moving with a photovoltaic cell, a motor and a propeller	".pdf" (752 KB)

Download the whole set of the 20 SEAA project activities presented above

A set of 20 Hands-on investigations, activities and constructions on Solar Energy applications. Developed under the “Solar Energy - Awareness & Action” [SEAA] Comenius school partnership project, 2005-2008. [This is the whole set of the 20 activities presented above, over the three-year project period]

".pdf" (8402 KB)

The SEAA Project Journal (September 2008)

	The SEAA Journal of hands-on investigations, activities and constructions on solar energy applications_Part A. Developed under the “Solar Energy - Awareness & Action” [SEAA] Comenius school partnership project, 2005-2008. [This is the above set of the 20 activities presented as Part A of the SEAA Journal]	".pdf" (8489 KB)
	The SEAA Journal of hands-on investigations, activities and constructions on solar energy applications_Part B. Developed under the “Solar Energy - Awareness & Action” [SEAA] Comenius school partnership project, 2005-2008. [This is an indicative set of 16 SEAA Project activities from all partner schools]    Join the two parts (A & B) together to obtain the whole "SEAA Project Journal"!	".pdf" (8533 KB)

Some more solar energy constructions and activities ... in Greek

	Solar dehydrators out of one and two boxes [in Greek]	".pdf" (1647 KB)
	Simple solar collectors with plastic bags resting on different colours of cardboard (black and white) and a serpentine solar water heater [in Greek]	".pdf" (698 KB)
	A box solar cooker without a lid and with one reflector [in Greek]	".pdf" (975 KB)