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Handout
Other

Kid Wind Project: Wind Turbine Blade Design

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how blade design affects the power output of a wind turbine. This is a short description but links to extensive information, a PowerPoint, and a lesson on designing your own turbine blades.
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Ready for an Energy Makeover?

For Students 9th - 10th
Sometimes these are changes that happen routinely in the natural world, and sometimes these are "makeovers" where human creations transform energy into a specific form that serves a specific need. Either way, we call these changes energy...
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Interactive
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Off the Grid

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive activity produced for Teachers' Domain presents users with three hypothetical scenarios in which they are challenged to design a wind power system that will meet their electrical needs.
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Lesson Plan
Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Build Your Own Perpetual Motion Machine [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A lesson for learners to explore the conversion of energy from electrical energy to kinetic energy by constructing a homopolar motor. Also by constructing the motor, students can investigate magnetism, electricity, and RPM.