What Can Solar Energy Be Used

For?

Think of some ideas before continuing the presentation

It can charge any electrical device.

It can help power an air conditioner.

Solar energy can cook food.

•Electricity from solar panels can be used to make things work, like lights in a home or outdoors.

• It can also heat water in a home, run air conditioners, radios, flashlights, and chargers for electronics like cell phones and cameras, and much more.

•The sun's heat energy can be used for lots of things, even without solar panels! It can be used to cook food using a solar cooker. You will make a homemade solar oven for the final of this science pizza lesson. You can use it to make your own pizza!

Homemade solar oven ->

The sun's light can also be used for many things in your every day life. For example you can open the blinds and curtains on windows to let natural light come inside instead of turning on lights. That way your family will also save money by not using as much electricity.

Can you think of other ways you can use the sun's

heat and light energy to do things???

Dry clothes outside on a clothesline

To warm up water to give a dog a bath

To heat up the water in a swimming pool