Plywood board (7 panels, 12 inches by 15 inches, with two panels cut diagonally.)
Panels are glued and covered with aluminium foil (cooking foil), and joined together with strips of glued foil to create the template shown. The edge X is glued to edge Y and stood on the base.
MAKING A SOLAR ENERGY COOKER IN THE CLASSROOM. A project about sustainable technology.
Painting the lid and outside of the pot black to absorb the heat.
Glueing and covering wood panels with aluminium foil
The completed cooker (black lid removed to show cooked sliced potato and tomato in curry powder and a little oil).
SHIVA Charity (UK) puts these free educational pages on its web site in order to be used primarily in Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Darjeeling, India, where lessons are mostly repetitive "chalk and talk" and curriculum restrained. We are involved in teachers' resources training there, and hope that schools in the UK and elsewhere will support SHIVA Charity's cause with funding. Please visit our main pages to see the work we do, and how we raise money for individual projects and for child sponsorship.
