Technologies
Solarize Your School
Part 1: Be the Change – A Project Overview
- Project overview (lecture slides)
- Solar power systems around the world (worksheet, Virtual Solar Grid, Google Maps)
- Create solar power systems in Energy3D (Youtube channel, coming soon)
Part 2: That's Our School – Modeling the Campus
- Architecture Modeling with Energy3D Tutorials (tutorial for simple buildings, tutorial for complex buildings)
Part 3: Hello, Sun – Solar Science Concepts
- Solar Science Concepts (workbook, lecture slides, quiz)
- Performance-based assessment: Maximize It! (task description, model)
Part 4: How Engineers Think – Engineering Design Principles
- Criteria & Constraints – Grounded-mounted system (worksheet)
- Tradeoff – Comparing three designs (worksheet)
- Experimentation – Inter-row distance (worksheet)
- Optimization – Packing solar panels on a given surface (worksheet)
- Optimization – Yield-area ratio vs. yield-cost ratio (worksheet)
- Financial modeling (worksheet)
Part 5: What It Takes – Tackling the Design Challenge
- Design Guide for surface-mounted system on flat roof (lecture slides, workbook)
- Design Guide for surface-mounted system on pitched roof (coming soon)
- Design Guide for solar canopy (coming soon)
- Design performance scoring rubric
Part 6: Make It Happen – Presenting, Publishing, and Advocating