Power of Students
Island Energy Inquiry is developing additional class activities linking energy to work. Students in Tech Careers measured forces and distances in two mini-labs: Stairway to Heaven and Moving Water. Back in the classroom, they calculated Work = Force x Distance, then computed their individual power.Are you brighter than a 50-watt bulb? Students calculated their results and answered the question.
Finally, they converted their watts of power to horsepower in the lab section titled Horsing Around. Through this inquiry activity, they found that large muscle groups are best! And that a world-class athletic bicyclist generated the power for the Gossamer Condor when it won the Kremer Prize for human-powered flight in 1977.
