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 * Sol Light Solar Energy Company **
 * By Leanne and Leia, Room 11 **

=Steps For This Project = 1. Create a company logo.  2. Put Big 6 Steps into Wiki page.  3. Create 10 Questions using the Big 6 model and get Mr. Garrison Approval.  4. Decide on how information will be presented.  5. Tag wiki pages for grading.  6. For Big6 3.2 use "Wonder Wheel" and Skitch to create search terms.  7. Bookmark 20 websites on diigo and have at least 2 sources highlighted on those web pages for each question.

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=Big6 Steps =

=1.1 - 1.2 Task Definition =  What do I need to do?

 For this project, we have to choose an alternative energy source, make a company that specializes in making inventions using that kind of power, make a name and logo for our company, and invent an invention.  We chose to do a solar company, called Sol Light.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 1.4em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">10 Questions- Set 1: The Basics 1. How could you convert solar energy into electricity/power? a. The was most people use is photovoltaic, aka PV, technology, which directly turns sunlight into electricity. It does that by using solar or PV cells. <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt; vertical-align: baseline;">  2. What things could run on solar power? a. Lamps, heaters, cars, and calculators are some of things that can be powered with solar power. 3. What is solar power? a. Solar power is the conversion of sunlight into electricity, using PV Solar energy is pretty much just heat and light. <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;"> 4. How is solar power generated? <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;"> a. The solar panels take the energy the sun makes and turns it into energy we could use, for example, lamps, light bulbs, etc. <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;"> 5. What is photovoltaic (PV)? <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;"> a. PV is a system that uses solar panels to convert sunlight to solar power. <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;"> 6. What is the process of solar panels? (How does it work?) <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;"> a. Solar panels collect solar radiation and convert that energy to electricity. Solar panels are made of several solar cells. These solar cells work similarly to semiconductors and utilize a large area p-n junction diode. When the solar cells are exposed to sunlight, the p-n junction diodes convert the energy from sunlight to electricity. The energy generated from photons striking the surface of the solar panels allows electrons to be knocked out of their orbits and released, and electric fields in the solar cells pull these free electrons in a directional current, from which metal contacts in the solar cell can generate electricity. <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;"> 7. What are some of the simplest (most basic ways) ways we could use solar power? <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;"> a. Some of the simplest ways we could use solar power is using it to power things like light bulbs, lamps, and some other things we use everyday. <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;">   8. How can using solar power help the earth? a. Because it is natural, and we don’t have to dig up or destroy anything to get it. The sun just shines every day. 9. Why does the sun generate solar power/energy in general? a. Light is generated by the sun as a result of the fusion reaction at its core. By forcibly compacting hydrogen atoms into helium the resulting energy from the fusion process creates various energy waves that radiate out. 10. Why/how is using solar energy better then fossil fuels? a. It is better because using solar power doesn’t make any waste and is a renewable resource. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: normal;">10 Questions- Set 2: Our Invention
 * 1) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">How will our invention work? (Like how will it run?)
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">The Solar power it collects will power the lights and the heater system.
 * 3) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What materials would we use to make it?
 * 4) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A metal window frame, a vent, strips/strings of LED lights, and Solar panels.
 * 5) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">How would we put it together?
 * 6) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; list-style-type: lower-alpha; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> We will use different materials and tools to fit the solar panels to the frame, with the lights already embedded. Then, we would connect the vent and the emergency battery to it.
 * 7) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What are the main parts of it?
 * 8) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; list-style-type: lower-alpha; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> The Solar panel, the lights, and the heater vent.
 * 9) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">How are we sure that it will work?
 * 10) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; list-style-type: lower-alpha; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> We are not sure, but we spent a long time making sure that is will be functional.
 * 11) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What will our invention be able to do?
 * 12) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; list-style-type: lower-alpha; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> It will be able to give out light, give out warm air for cold days, and power other objects using solar power.
 * 13) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">How would someone use it?
 * 14) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; list-style-type: lower-alpha; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> At night, they could turn it to light mode, and it would become a sort of lamp. On cold days, they might turn it to heater mode, and then warm air collected from outside would come out through the vent. The person using it could also connect something to the window and power that object by Solar power.
 * 15) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Why would people use/buy it? / How would we get people to use/buy it?
 * 16) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; list-style-type: lower-alpha; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> People would buy it because it is useful and convenient. It is also eco-friendly(green) by using Solar power. We could get people to buy it by advertising it and showing people how useful it is.
 * 17) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">How would this invention help people?
 * 18) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; list-style-type: lower-alpha; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> It would give them cheap heat and light, and also let them be greener.
 * 19) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What happens if our invention doesn’t work?
 * 20) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; list-style-type: lower-alpha; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Then we would try to fix it, or invent something else.

=<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> 2.1 - 2.2 Information Seeking Strategies = <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> What can I use to find what I need?

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 27px;">Possible Sources To Find What Information We Need >
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15px; line-height: 27px;">﻿Teacher
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15px; line-height: 27px;">Internet/Websites
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> ﻿Books/Library
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15px; line-height: 27px;">TV
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15px; line-height: 27px;">Dictionary
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15px; line-height: 27px;">Encyclopedia
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15px; line-height: 27px;">Newspaper
 * 5) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15px; line-height: 27px;">Scientist
 * 6) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15px; line-height: 27px;">Science Museum

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 1.4em;">Sources We Are Going To Use
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15px;">Internet/Websites
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15px;">Teacher
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15px;">Books

=<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> 3.1 - 3.2 Location & Access = <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Where can I find what I need?

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 1.4em;">Some Useful Websites We Found and Used <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[|http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/energy/solar-cell.htm] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[] <span style="color: #000099; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;">[]

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=<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> 4.1 - 4.2 Use of Information = <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> What information can I use?

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 27px;">Most Useful Websites <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[]

=<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> 5.1 - 5.2 Synthesis = <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> What can I make to finish the job?

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=<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">All About Our Invention =
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What It’s Called ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Windasun ||


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What It Is ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Its a window made of clear/glass solar panels. ||


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What It Does ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">It attracts solar energy and stores it. It uses the energy that it stored later ||


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How It Uses Energy ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In the Winter, it becomes a heater and lets out whatever solar power it collected in a form of heat from outside the house. It can also become a solar powered window light by storing up light energy in the daytime and letting out that energy into a long chain of square shaped LED lights embedded into the sides of the windows. ||

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 11pt;">It is automatically always in Solar power Absorbing Mode. ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Additional Things ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">You can use a remote control to turn it to different modes:
 * 1) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Heater Mode
 * 2) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Light Mode
 * 3) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Off Mode

=<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Pictures/Drawings/Drafts of our Invention =

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