The Brighton energy people came in to deliver their Solar Panels workshop. They worked with both of our Y5 classes where the children used light meters to measure the light from various sources and learned how our solar panels actually create electricity. They used this and other knowledge to design their own solar-powered buggies.
Activity description
Many schools have photovoltaic panels which produce energy from sunlight. These panels reduce the school's electricity consumption from the National Electricity Grid and reduce the school's carbon emissions, as electricity produced from solar panels produces very little carbon. Solar panels also save schools money.
Our downloadable worksheet on the right uses the data from one of our Energy Sparks schools to explore how much energy can be provided by solar panels and how much this might cost.
If you have solar panels your own solar data will be shown below and can be used to answer the questions on the sheet.
Question 1
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Question 3 and 4
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