Up your students’ knowledge and skills with this Design Challenge. Filled to the brim with fun, easy-to-use resources, this box has everything students need to engage, create, and investigate. 

Emergency Solar Water Heater Design Challenge Overview
With this fun-filled box, students design, construct, and test a solar water heater that people can store in their homes and use after a natural disaster or another emergency. The solar water heater must use light from the Sun to increase the temperature of 1 liter of water to over 38 degrees C (100 degrees F) in under 30 minutes.

Who It’s For:

This design challenge, which includes all necessary materials, is designed for middle school students in 6th - 8th grades. Using the Argument-Driven Inquiry instructional model, students will investigate environmental changes, systems, and system models and represent and interpret data.

Standards Alignment

More details

• Six sets of high-quality materials for designing a solar water heater.
• Serves up to 24 students working in small groups.
• Designed for 6th - 8th grade students.
• Can be used for STEM Camps, engineering and science classes, after-school programs, and more.
• Takes approximately 12 hours to complete, but it remains flexible to your group's needs.
• All student handouts and teacher notes are found in the ADI Learning Hub. Access your free account here.