Tell Me, I’ll Forget, Show Me, I’ll Remember, Let Me Do It, I’ll Understand.

 SHEFFIELD ENVIRONMENT WEEK 2008 - PARENT/CHILD SOLAR SCIENCE WORKSHOP. 6-60+. Venue to be announced. 3rd May 2008. 

Build solar devices i.e. model car and boat, mini-water pump, doorbell. Discounts offered to take home the solar devices you build. Short 30 minute sessions between 10.00-12.30 pm to finish at 1.00 pm. Ring David on 0114 2499459 or register on line david@solar-active.com

Solar-Active.com have successfully developed an education method and resources making learning enjoyable - focusing on gaining knowledge, teamwork and enterprise skills.   Encouraging careers in engineering. Proven useful with the hard-to-reach and fits into concept of V-A-K Visual, Auditory and Kinesthetic leaning. Design and build solar and energy efficiency devices/resources & demonstrations, carbon-footprint and energy home & school surveys. 

NEXT WORKSHOP IN APRIL, 2008. Experience our educational method [incorporating ‘trial & improvement’] that focuses on applications of science, maths and D&T concepts - supported by our unique car/boat resource and curriculum materials. Workshop tasks will provide a framework for the following outcomes: 1. Awareness of and the applicability and benefits of energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies as a result:- energy and cost savings. 2. Experience the educational value of renewable and energy efficiency technologies. 3. Value of educational method that focuses on gaining knowledge, understanding and skills through real life application of scientific and mathematical concepts. 4. All participants to gain some personal benefit. 5. Participants be entertained and have a sense of enjoyment. 6. Awareness raising and be informed with regard to key areas of concern and action to be individually taken with regard to climate change.

£10.00 SOLAR SCIENCE starter kit for all ages 7-70+ AND the Home School Educator: -1. single flexible 1.5V/300mA solar cell; 2. model car & boat, mini-water pump and lorry assembly guides; 3. Remote control options; 4.  Worksheets for our renewable energy & energy resource posters; 5. On-line support to use our resources to experience how renewable energy technologies work.  Contact david@solar-active.com

The solar cells are now assembled in the UK and features the following: Thin-film amorphous silicon construction - no glass components;Flexible, durable, light-weight and waterproof; Responds to defuse light on a cloudy/rainy day; Output: 1Q-300mA & 1.5V; 2Q–300mA & 3V [*figures are accurate to +/- 10%]; Teacher/technical notes, student worksheets and experiments [electronic/C-D/paper]

The Qualifications & Curriculum Authority [QCA] considered the SOLAR-ACTIVE model solar car/boat used in EPSRC Engineering A Better World Solar Detectives Case Study to be an inspiring way to help pupils “transfer knowledge and skills between different subjects to develop pupils’ engineering skills in a cross-curricular context.” The inspired engineering experience was supported by an education method [incorporating ‘trial & improvement’] and curriculum materials created by SOLAR-ACTIVE.