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====== Lesson Seeds ======


Things that aren't quite ready to have a lesson research page belong here, whether they're projects or experiments without a concept to teach, 
or concepts without a project to make or experiment to do.\\
This is for brainstorming lesson ideas, so feel free to add anything you'd like to see a lesson about, and someone might just write that lesson.


===== High-priority lessons =====


//If you're looking for something to work on, look no further. \\ 
These are lessons for our proto-club in Takoradi, Ghana; if you write them they will be taught very soon.  \\ 
The top lesson is top priority, but work on whichever you find most exciting. //
    - Lessons form the solar module– our capstone project
    - Anemometer lesson
    - Step-Up Voltage Converters


===== Capstone ideas =====


//These are projects that would be at the end of a curriculum of several lessons, which might include smaller projects along the way.// 


    * solar system w/inverter (the biggest issue might be the black-box nature)
    * wind turbine for electricity (the biggest issue might be the precision needed)
    * wind turbine for water pumping (the biggest issue: is this useful?)
    * giant biogas digestor and efficient stove
    * biomass gasifier running a gasoline engine
    * solar system could be for specific purpose like a clinic or school
    * water pumping and purification system (using wind or bike or other for pumping)
    * solar cooker (probly not big enough, but I'm not sure what is bigger along this track - solar hot water?)
    * bicycle-powered generator (potentially cool first project for clubs starting a new PEN-space))
    * solar hot water heater (using flourescent lamps)


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===== Projects =====


    * solar panels on a cell phone
    * fruit battery
    * car battery to charge cell phones
    * Savonius bucket turbine
    * Modifying a battery holder to use cell phone batteries
    * Build a @@ lamp, build charger for cell phone battery to light lamp
    * Solar cars
    * solar oven or fruit-dryer
    * water-bottle "light" - to distribute light through roof during the day
    * Biogas
    * charcoal press design
    * Nut/seed shellers


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===== Projectless concepts =====


    * Household applications
      * lighting - appropriate levels
      * lighting - technical side of things
      * cooking?
      * laundry?
      * kind of power needed for appliances
    * Solar Cooker/Solar Hot Water:
      * heat transfer
      * reflection/absorbtion/materials
      * different types of devices
      * temperature/food safety?
    * Solar Photovoltaics
      * semiconductors+bandgap+doping?
      * cell structure?
      * (not sure how much in depth we want these kind of things)
      * photoelectric effect
      * connecting in parallel and series
      * shading
      * angle, tracking
      * peak power, voltage conversion,
      * batteries and maintenance
      * evaluating the extent of a resource
      * inverters
    * Lab safety
    * Basic Skills
      * soldering
      * motors
      * LED's
      * sketching designs
      * ccb/evaluating designs
      * telling another how a design works
      * parallel and series
      * basic wood/metal tools
      * circuits/voltage/current
      * battery charging (different types?)
      * energy and power units
    * Water Purification
    * Water Pumping
      * prereq concepts?
    * Wind Energy
      * mechanical applications
        * water pump
        * other?
      * electrical generation
    * One-Off Skill Lessons
      * how to use power tools
      * using e-waste
      * soldering
      * making things from bicycle parts!
    * CCB 2: Product Deign
      * Prototyping
      * COMMUNICATION!
      * (Presentation skills, writeups, etc.)


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