The Itty Bitty Pizza Oven Activity
Hey Provost, Miss Holland’s 4th grade students learned a lesson about how energy transfers from one object to another; and part of this lesson was to do an activity out on the blacktop that helped the 4th graders see how energy transfers between objects.
Each student was given a piece of aluminum foil and ingredients to make a mini pizza, engineered their own itty-bitty oven with the aluminum foil and attempted to cook their mini pizzas with the energy of the sun transferring to the aluminum foil.
Some of the mini pizzas melted a lot more than others. Why do you think that is?