Solar PV: Module Performance Residential Size

This collection from the Center for Renewable Energy Advanced Technological Education Resource Center (CREATE) is composed of teaching materials that highlight a lesson on solar PV modules and tools. The collection is composed of five documents and a video.

The documents include an instructor's guide and answer key, a student lesson and response guide, slides, and two standards documents. The instructor's guide and answer key provides learning objectives, a list of materials, an introduction to the activity, and answers for the lesson's assessment. The student lesson and response guide provides an introduction the topic, a list of materials, information on PV modules and tools, and an assessment. The slides provide images and information on solar PV modules and tools. The standards documents explore energy literacy principles and concepts, as well as next generation high school science standards.

The video provides a demonstration of the relationship between volts, current, and temperature for a solar panel. The video recording runs 11:38 minutes in length.

For orientation purposes the '508_Solar PV Module Performance RSM Student Lesson and Response Guide.pdf' PDF is included as a separate attachment and offers a sample of the type of the material included in this module.

Below is a list of the files contained within the .zip attachment. Files are listed with their file name and size in parenthesis. 

508_Solar_PV_Module_Performance_Residential_Size (6 files, 88 MB)

• Energy Literacy Standards (508_ELStandards Solar PV Module Performance.pdf 65 KB)
• Next Generation Science Standards (508_NGSStandards Solar PV Module Performance.pdf 80 KB)
• Instructor's Guide and Answer Key (508_Solar PV Module Performance RSM Instructors Guide & Answer Key.pdf 366 KB)
• Student Lesson and Response Guide (508_Solar PV Module Performance RSM Student Lesson and Response Guide.pdf 629 KB)
• Slides (508_Student Orientation to Module Performance RSM.pdf 16 MB)
• Solar PV Volts and Amps vs Temperature (Solar PV Volts and Amps vs Temperature.mp4 71 MB)