Little Alchemy
Electricity or heat harvested from unlimited, naturally replenished sources as opposed to finite sources such as fossil fuels or uranium.
What is renewable/alternative energy?
This school occupies the Moody School building today, inspiring and engaging students through project-based, student-centered instruction.
What is the Maine Academy of Natural Sciences?
This flat device converts sunlight into electricity and is usually arranged in groups called arrays.
What is a solar panel?
Electricity is formed from the shifting and rearranging of these subatomic particles between atoms.
What are electrons?
Injury and damage caused by an external electric current passing through the body.
What is electric shock/electrocution?
This device generates electricity by rotating coils of wire and magnetic fields.
What is a dynamo?
In the Windstorm Challenge, students design scale models of this device on which wind turbines will be placed.
What is a platform?
This process in which hydrogen is turned into helium is the source of the Sun's colossal energy.
What is nuclear fusion?
This camping device allows the baking of food by radiant heat from an open fire, enclosing the food from all but three sides and directing the heat toward the food.
What is a reflector oven?
This cooking pot with a slightly concave, rimmed lid can have coals from the cooking fire placed on top and act as an oven.
What is a Dutch oven?
This wavelength of light, shorter than that of visible light but longer than X-rays, has many practical applications such as photography and disinfection but also can cause harm to human health.
This device harnesses the kinetic energy from wind and turns it into electricity.
What is a wind turbine?
On competition day, the students' scale models will be tested in this controlled environment designed to mimic conditions in the open ocean.
What is wind wave simulator?
The sun belongs in this category of stars, bigger than red dwarfs and smaller than blue giants.
What is yellow dwarf?
This camping device uses heat directed toward a central tube from two reflective surfaces to cook food.
What is a solar oven?