Teaching Solar Energy to Kids - Greenwith primary school!

Ok kids, time for some maths! 1 + 1 = SOLAR! Basically we're running out of oil, so everybody knows what oil is right? Well oil is used to convert into petrol and we put petrol in the cars so we drive around and do all sorts of different things we want to do. The problem is that the world is running out of oil and oil is getting very, very expensive. Petrol prices are going up and it's hard to maintain those costs . . . One of the renewable energies they use is solar and the reason why solar is so effective is you get the energy from the sun. Question: "How would you, like drive the car?" Well what happens is the solar energy that's generated is stored in batteries. So you know at the moment in the front of your car, you know how you've got an engine? Well you don't have an engine in solar vehicles, you actually have battery packs. They can actually put sensors in clothing now so that when you do the air guitar it plays the music to match what action you're making! How cool would that be! And they can link it up with solar that actually powers the sensors, it's pretty cool stuff! So this is a solar powered ski jacket and basically what happens, it's a normal ski jacket - it's designed to keep you warm, but the solar paneling on the actual outer layer of the clothing is used to charge all your devices. So your mobile phone, it can charge your iPod, if you've got a camera, any sort of electronic device that you have to carry is actually charged with your clothing as you're skiing down the slopes!