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How to smile.org: Build a Wind Turbine

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A step-by-step guide to build a wind turbine. Using their wind turbine, learners test how much energy is created by using a variety of wind blades and wind speeds.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Wind Power!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students learn how engineers transform wind energy into electrical energy by building their own miniature wind turbines and measuring the electrical current it produces. They explore how design and position affect the electrical energy...
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Website
Creative Science Centre

Creative Science Centre: How to Make Your Own Windmill

For Students 9th - 10th
Instructions for building a windmill using wood.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Renewable Energy Living Lab: Power Your School

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students use real-world data to calculate the potential for solar and wind energy generation at their school location. After examining maps and analyzing data from the online Renewable Energy Living Lab, they write recommendations as to...
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Technovation

Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Engineer a Wind Powered Water Pump

For Students Pre-K - 1st
With this design challenge, students can build a wind-powered turbine that can pump water up from the ground. This site contains tips to complete the design challenge as well as a place for students to document their engineering design...
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Technovation

Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Build a Wind Powered Turbine

For Students Pre-K - 1st
On this site, there is a challenge for students to engineer a machine that converts wind power into mechanical energy. This site also includes a lesson plan, tips, and a place for students to document their engineering design process.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Wind Power

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How wind can be used to generate power, and its consequences.
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Next.cc

Next: Wind Power

For Students 3rd - 8th
Engage in the activities provided to learn how the wind is an important source of energy. Click on the links for further exploration
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: High Altitude Wind Energy From Kites!

For Students 9th - 10th
In this brief talk, Saul Griffith unveils the invention his new company Makani Power has been working on: giant kite turbines that create surprising amounts of clean, renewable energy. [5:22]
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12 Exploration Series: Simulations: Physics: Wind Turbines

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Learn about the concept of efficiency as it relates to power generation at a wind turbine.
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Unleash the Power of a Pinwheel!

For Students 9th - 10th
In this science fair project, you will learn more about wind-powered devices, like pinwheels. Much like pinwheels, we react in different ways to the direction of the wind when we ride bikes, or even try to walk.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Wind Energy

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students learn about wind energy by making a pinwheel to model a wind turbine. Just like engineers, they decide where and how their turbine works best by testing it in different areas of the playground.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Power Your House With Wind

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students learn how engineers harness the energy of the wind to produce power by following the engineering design process as they prototype two types of wind turbines and test to see which works best. Students also learn how engineers...
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University of Missouri

University of Missouri Columbia/ Wind Energy

For Students 9th - 10th
Wind data at several Missouri locations. Information on wind availability, rotor types, and uses.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Wind Power

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this activity, students develop an understanding of how engineers use wind to generate electricity. They will build a model anemometer to better understand and measure wind speed.
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Climate Literacy

Clean: Wind Energy Using Google Earth

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity young scholars will use Google Earth to investigate ideal features of wind farms and they will use the Google Earth measurement tool to determine the estimated perimeter of each wind farm.
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Handout
Science4Fun

Science4 Fun: Wind Energy

For Students 1st - 6th
What is wind energy? Learn how to use wind energy to generate power, how winds are formed, how it generates electricity, how a wind turbine works, and the advantages and disadvantages of wind energy.
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Handout
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Wind Power Study Guide

For Students 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This study guide summarizes key points about wind energy. Includes a few questions to check for understanding.
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Handout
Energy4Me

Energy4me: Wind Energy

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the alternative energy source, wind energy. Find out the history of this renewable resource and how it works to convert wind energy into electricity.
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Technovation

Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Build a Wind Powered Sailboat

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Powered by the wind watch your boat move through the water. This challenge has students making a boat using simple household materials. The website also includes tips, a lesson plan, and a place for students to document their engineering...
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Other

Siemens Science Day: Physical Science: Blowin' in the Wind

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will create their own windmill and learn how to use the most efficient design by testing theirs against their classmates' projects.
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Other

Windmill World: History of Windmills

For Students 9th - 10th
A nice account of the history of windmills from earliest times to the present. Includes links to other windmill pages.
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Other

Kid Wind Project: Teacher Resources

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A collection of inquiry-based and hands-on activities to introduce students to wind energy. Includes PowerPoints, labs, and videos.
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Other

Canon 3 D Paper Craft Buildings: Windmill

For Students 9th - 10th
Intricately detailed paper-folding activity that provides templates and instructions for building a three-dimensional paper model of a windmill. Instructions require download.

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