solar s'mores

Hi I'm Ella, and I'm going to tell you about our solar s'mores in our class.   We were learning about geography in Social Studies and learned about natural resources.  Natural resources can be renewable or nonrenewable.  I think we should use more renewable resources, like sunlight, because you can save it instead of using it and then buying it again and again.   
    Well Mrs. Schuh asked us how we can cook without using nonrenewable energy.  We came up with solar energy!  She showed us a video about the people in Africa using solar energy to cook their food.  That night for homework we made a plan on how to create a solar cooker.  The next day, we shared our plan and got to work on making our solar cookers!  She got Imos pizza boxes  and split us in to teams. Then all of the kids in each group got the  supplies they needed like siccors, glue and ruler's.  mrs. Schuh also got us some tinfoil and clear rap and then we got in to work. In our groups we cut the boxes in the different designs. all the other third grade classes also did this.  mrs. Carson's  class did it in shoe boxes but it still worked.
   when we were all done we put them on the black top right before recess because the sun's rays hit the blacktop.  We left them there the hole day and then at the end of the day we came back to eat our solar s'mores.  When we looked at our marsmellows and they did not really melt but the choclate did. We talked  about it and ms.Katinas  said that the marsmellows did not melt cause it is white and it reflects on the sun but since the choclate is brownish blackish that that is why it melted. The solar s'mores were so good! Then at the end of the day we ate are solar s'mores and then went home.

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