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There’s basing an international kid-observatory. The kids all around the world are united to solve global problems of the world with the power of science and their creativity. We know the future lies in the power of us and we will use this power to make the world better!

And such first problem is consumption of environmental resources at an alarming rate (like petroleum as energy source) and research in area of alternative energy source.

There’s a very simple suggestion: to use the sun as an alternative energy source. But it’s not so trivial as it would seem. The sun is very powerful energy source based on thermonuclear reactions. All the time the Earth lives it consumes and puts the sun-energy by. The international kid-observatory will research, how much energy the Earth gets from the sun (daily, yearly, in different latitudes).

In the project is used such school knowledge as relativity of mechanic moving; optic and photometry (physic); sun-moving in different latitudes (astronomy); polar coords, trigonometry, stereometry (math).

For this project you will need a compass, a watch and a luxmeter or some other devices measuring the intensity of sun-radiation.

The project procedure follows:

  • Pre-project: Students send in Responses to the 4 questions, teachers or students register for the KIDLINK IRC
  • 2. Step. Classes discuss the ways of energy-produce and their influence on the environment.
  • 3. Step. Classes discuss an energetically resources of the sun (or offer their own ecological energy source and find out how much energy it can produce).
  • 4. Step. Collection of an experimental data. Measurement of rising- and setting-time, angle between directions on the north and the sun (at rising and setting), photo-activity of the sun in the morning, midday, evening.
  • 5. Step. Theoretical analysis of sun-moving in different time zones and seasons, and the output (power) of the sun. Creating of table “sun-energy in different times (seasons) and time zones”.
  • 6. Step. Estimation of the energy the city (maybe country) is consumed through a day, month, year (find it out in the energetically services of the city/country).
  • Post-project. Classes discuss the results of their theoretical and experimental observing. Publishing results in the KIDLINK web-site.

    Didn't you know the science is fascinating enough? Well, you know this now! And you can be useful for all people of the World and for yourself of course because you invent your own future - you do participate the development of alternative energy source that's very important for preserving our environment for generations to follow ours.

    We hope to see you in our observatory.

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    The KidProj International kid-observatory Project is Moderated by Andrew Gavrilow: gavrilov_an@list.ru


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