Hydrogen burns at a very high temperature. Four times hotter than propane.
The Sun is mostly made of Hydrogen.

 
Great places to link to.
I hope this information will save you some time and help your teaching.

www.solarsolutionsseen.com

Solar Solutions
    solar electric education kits, education and training focusing on teachers grades 5 - 12   -- science, math, technology, and sociology.

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BP America

http://www.bp.com/genericarticle.do?categoryId=4705&contentId=7040700

 BP America gives out grants to schools (teachers) that want to start a Renewable Energy program. This is a K-12 opportunity. If you have a good idea, write for the grant. Grants are around $10,000.  You need to have the grant processed by January of each year.  Easy Grant writing, if grant writing is easy. You may get a little famous.

The links on this page may be the basis for your grant.

I know several teachers who received this grant. This grants was made for teachers, to write. Not that difficult to do.

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Pico

www.picoturbine.com

Pico has a Windmill Kit for the grade 5 through adult. This project will help you to explain how energy is made. This does take some time, more than a couple of hours. Not your first project. Start simple.

The supplies are excellent when you buy from Pico.

They have schools for teachers to teach Pico.  

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www.re-energy.ca/pdf/wind-turbine.pdf  

This is very similar to Pico but the information is free. From California.

http://101science.com/Radiotutorialslinks.htm

www.nmsea.org/Curriculum/Companies/Companies.htm

http://www.kidwind.org/

You may need to explain about electronics first. These links are good.

A book will be coming out about basic electricity.

 

www.re-energy.ca/t_renewablebasics.shtml     Canada

This site is a good overall site for teachers as a resource.

The solar cooker is a great first project. This was my daughter's first project in Renewable Energy - 5th grade. If only she could cook. Which came first the stove or the cook?

Make a contest. This is a good way to get parents involved in the learning experience. Have a cook-off at lunch. Test the idea first before you do this though. Use only those that work. Some won't.

 

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Before you do any project -- test it --outside of the student class.

A good small project is to make Hydrogen. It is really HHO which is similar. You just split the H2 and O from the H20 in water. You are going to make very little. Maybe a bubble or two.

Take two pencils and take the wood off both ends. Get a old cell phone charger and cut the wires so the ends are exposed. Wrap the ends around the end of each pencil - separately. Use a electrician's nut to tie the pencil and wire together.  Put the pencils connected to the wire in a glass of water. Plug in the charger. If nothing happens, put some salt in the water. The salt slows the electrons down (resistance). You get small bubbles. One side is O the other side is H. This is called HHO.

You have just made Brown's Gas. That's what makes Hydrogen Cars go.

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Build it solar

http://www.builditsolar.com/Projects/Educational/educational.htm

This is an excellent site. Has a lot of ideas.

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The half plan - cut CO2 in half

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http://www.windstuffnow.com/main/one_hour_projects.htm

One hour projects with basic tools.

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Radio Shack

http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=3526559

Radio Shack has some beginning books and projects that are great. They have small electronic parts in stock at their stores.   They also have some training books. You may be surprised what they can do for you. They are a good quite company

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New York events and classroom help for educators.

NY has a great deal of information and how-to activities for teachers. Activities like
"

A Solar Kit for the Classroom"

  More than you can keep up with. Great ideas.

http://www.nesea.org/eventlisting/

Arizona Solar Center

Arizona has a great place for students, teachers, and shows solar events. A good site.
Shows many places for classes, some on-line.

http://www.azsolarcenter.com/education/moreed.html

 

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This YouTube may be good to  play while the students are getting ready to work.

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I changed my plans a little. I got rid of the cardboard and used recycled plastic. You may want to have a couple of extra special LED Diodes around. This is in 3 phase, but you do not need to explain that unless you want to. Kids are involved so I used a wooden frame to keep everything stable. I used an air compressor for the wind.