Looking at Energy. Describe what you see in the photo.

Zambian Connections

Looking at Energy

Describe what you see in the photo

Can you see any similarities in the way a meal is cooked in your house?

Yes there are more than one person cooking the meal. They appear to be using a spatula and pan.

Can you see any differences in the way a meal is cooked at your house?

Yes, in the picture it’s many people, they are cooking outside over a fire. Where we would cook inside.

Typed by Logan’s Mom

A meal is being cooked

Where do you think the people get this source?Cutting down treesChemical energy being burned from the wood, chemical and heat. Why do you think they use this source?Because it’s cheap and it’s available to them What advantages can you think of to cooking with this source?It doesn’t cost as much What disadvantages can you think of to cooking with this source?It takes a longer time to heat up, it doesn’t have a consistent and well spread heat that will burn out.

What is the source of energy being used?

Fires need to be tended which

takes time Inhaling smoke and particulates

causes respiratory diseases It takes time to gather wood Contributes to deforestation

Disadvantages To Cooking with Wood

Can you think of another way

that people in Zambia could cook? What would you suggest? Talk to your team and list at least three ideas.

Stretch your thinking!

Describe what you see in the photo

What are the advantages of

using this source of energy? What are the disadvanatges

of using this source of energy?

What is the energy source?

The construction of a solar oven is cheap and

easy Time doesn’t need to be spent gathering wood A solar oven doesn’t need to be tended which

means time can be freed up to do other things Solar ovens don’t create smoke they are

healthier Solar ovens do not contribute to deforestation

Advantages

Describe what you see in the photos

Kerosene is a combustible liquid

derived from petroleum. Kerosene lamps are commonly used to light homes in rural Zambia as electricity supplies are unreliable.

Can you think of any disadvantages to this source of energy?Smells really bad and pollutes. It doesn’t produce allot of light and does release allot of smoke.

The photos show homemade Kerosene

lamps

Kerosene is expensive It pollutes and is very smelly Doesn’t provide great light to do

homework, read etc. It’s a non-renewable source of

energy Can easily start a fire

Disadvanatges

Can you think of a better way that our Zambian friends could light

their homes?

Brainstorm with your team

Stretch your thinking

After watching this

presentation: How do you feel? What do you think? What do you wonder? How are you inspired?

Reflect