The Pitsco 32877 Banty Roaster Solar Cooker provides students in grades 3-12 a hands-on activity to build and use a solar cooker that demonstrates the scientific concepts of solar energy, heat gain, heat loss, and the second law of thermodynamics, and it includes the materials to build one solar cooker using basic tools and cool-melt glue. The kit contains a silver styrene mirror, a foam grip, a metal cooking tube, a 24-inch long wooden dowel, mounting brackets, screws, hex nuts, nuts, nylon washers, nylon spacers, and acrylic parts for the cooker frame. Acrylic is lightweight, and resists shattering, impact, and most non-abrasive cleaners including ammonia and strong detergents. The solar cooker's reflective, parabolic collector surface has an area of 95 square inches that can be adjusted to most effectively capture the sun's rays. The cooker can prepare individual cocktail sausages wrapped in foil to teach students about practical applications for solar energy, and the project reinforces engineering, technology, and math concepts as students experiment with a solar cooker. The finished measurements are 12 x 8 inches (H x W). (H is height, the vertical distance from lowest to highest point; W is width, the horizontal distance from left to right) A solar cooker is typically used in an educational setting to demonstrate solar energy and thermodynamics.

Construction requires a Phillips screwdriver, cool-melt glue, glue gun, scissors, needle-nose pliers (all sold separately).

Science education products incorporate applied math and science principles into classroom and homeschool-based projects. Teachers in pre-K, elementary, and secondary classrooms use science education kits and products alongside science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) curriculum to demonstrate STEM concepts and real-world applications through hands-on activities. Science education projects include a broad range of activities, such as practical experiments in engineering, aeronautics, robotics, energy, chemistry, physics, biology, and geology.

Pitsco Education develops K-12 science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) curriculum, educational kits, and classroom tools. The company, founded in 1971, is headquartered in Pittsburg, KS.

What€s in the Box?

• Silver styrene mirror
• (2) Acrylic legs
• (2) Acrylic braces
• (2) Acrylic mirror cradles
• (2) Acrylic mirror end caps
• (2) Acrylic solar angle gauges
• (2) Acrylic tube holders
• Foam grip
• Metal cooking tube
• Wooden dowel
• (4) Threaded mounting brackets
• (4) 4-40 x 3/8-inch PHP screws
• (4) 4-40 nuts
• (8) 6-32 x 3/8-inch PHP screws
• (4) 6-32 hex nuts
• (2) 6-32 x 1-inch PHP screws
• (2) Nylon insert lock nuts
• (4) Nylon flat washers
• (2) Nylon spacers
• Instructions