Clean Energy Topic: Wind Energy

  • Renewable City

    Renewable City

    This Renewable City Unit aims to help students dive in and actively explore sustainability, renewable resources, and how they might personally help solve our climate change problem. As students use multiple methods for investigating, creating, and thinking about these critical issues, they will be encouraged to develop pliable minds and action-oriented skills to address climate…

  • Understanding Energy Through Wind Turbines

    Understanding Energy Through Wind Turbines

    In this unit students will be building knowledge on what energy is and how it is harnessed, students will interact with a variety of energy stations to build an understanding on what energy is. From there students will learn about renewable energy and the difference between renewable and non-renewable energy. Students will learn how to…

  • Offshore Wind Turbines Renewable Energy

    Offshore Wind Turbines Renewable Energy

    Students are introduced to offshore wind. They learn how offshore turbines are different, the challenges and benefits of building in the ocean, and how offshore wind turbines are built.

  • Battleship Windfarms

    Battleship Windfarms

    Wind power is a renewable resource that provides humans with an alternative to fossil fuels. However, wind farms cannot be built everywhere and when they are in the path of migratory birds, they can kill or injure these birds.

  • Electrical Engineering: Why Does the Electrical System Break Down?

    Electrical Engineering: Why Does the Electrical System Break Down?

    This unit, developed through the Ambitious Science Teaching framework, attempts to create cohesive, model-based learning experience for high school level physics students to explore these concepts through the anchoring event of a power outages. They will explore our electrical system from simple circuits and the function of a switch, tracing the electrical energy back through…

  • How Does Energy Affect Wildlife?

    How Does Energy Affect Wildlife?

    In this lesson, students learn that different electricity generation sources have very different effects on wildlife. This is a teacher recommended lesson by KidWind.

  • Clean Water Power: Wind, Waves, and Moving Water

    Clean Water Power: Wind, Waves, and Moving Water

    This unit strives to answer the question: “How can the power of moving help communities by generating electricity?” Through a variety of lessons centered on the phenomena of the power of moving water, students will develop skills in circuits, model building, and testing. Students will explore issues surrounding clean water, energy, and careers.

  • Where is the Clean Water Around Me?

    Where is the Clean Water Around Me?

    This lesson has students use hydropower, wave power, and wind power mapping tools to map the renewable resources around them on a large classroom map of their region, state, or North America.

  • Social, Emotional, and Equity Discussions in Clean Water Power

    Social, Emotional, and Equity Discussions in Clean Water Power

    This lesson has students jigsaw a bank of readings on the social, environmental, and equity issues with clean water power in order to make sense of how water power impacts the environment and people. Additionally, students will explore energy sovereignty and tribal energy independence in the Pacific Northwest to learn about how hydropower has impacted…

  • Optimal and Sustainable: Renewable Energy Revamp

    Optimal and Sustainable: Renewable Energy Revamp

    In this lesson, students will be challenged with an optimization problem. The fictitious town of Solutionville has decided to replace coal, their current source for electricity, with more sustainable energy sources. In designing Solutionville’s sustainable energy future, students must consider not only the geographic constraints of various renewable energy options–wind energy, hydroelectric power, geothermal energy,…

  • The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind Activity Guide

    The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind Activity Guide

    Learners will be inspired to put their own learning and imagination into action after reading the true story of, “The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind”. This is a teacher recommended lesson from Centre of Excellence for Energy.

  • Energy and How We Harness it: Virtual Field Trip

    Energy and How We Harness it: Virtual Field Trip

    In a virtual format, students will explore how energy is generated in different forms.

  • Exploring Energy Stations

    Exploring Energy Stations

    Students explore various forms of energy in order to distinguish between potential, kinetic, and their subcategories in order to look at the concept of transformations.

  • Building Wind Turbines with the Engineering Design Process

    Building Wind Turbines with the Engineering Design Process

    Students will use kits to build their own model wind turbines, exploring how different variables affect the operation of the turbine and developing blueprints for designs that reflect their findings.

  • Exploring the Impacts of Wind Turbines on Tribal Lands/Seas

    Exploring the Impacts of Wind Turbines on Tribal Lands/Seas

    Students will apply their existing knowledge of how turbines work and their environmental impact to a discussion of human impacts. This will focus specifically on Tribal lands and discussions taking place around energy development.

  • Exploring Renewable Energy Resources: Offshore Wind

    Exploring Renewable Energy Resources: Offshore Wind

    Students will build wind turbines in a variety of forms to develop a deep understanding of the function of wind turbines as well as variables that affect how successful a particular design is.

  • Designing a Renewable City Model

    Designing a Renewable City Model

    Students will use their collective understandings built throughout an entire unit of sustainability topics to develop their own sustainable city. This lesson uses a variety of visual and physical hands on tools for students to make their ideas and climate solutions come to life. Students will wrap up their development by presenting their “Renewable City”…

  • Solar Updraft Towers

    Solar Updraft Towers

    Students will combine research, direct observations, and hands on investigation to lead them into an engineering design project involving the construction of a solar updraft tower (5 lessons).

  • Learning About Solar Updraft Towers

    Learning About Solar Updraft Towers

    This lesson helps students learn about solar updraft towers being planned and built around the world to help solve the energy crisis by using unlimited power from the sun. This will provide real world context to the engineering challenge they engaged in during the previous lesson. A video is shown to the class; then students…

  • Let’s Build Our Wind and Solar Energy Toy

    Let’s Build Our Wind and Solar Energy Toy

    Students will combine what they learned in previous lessons using their investigations of convection-related phenomena to design a device that will convert light energy from the sun into thermal energy and utilize the resulting convection currents. Their primary objective will be to design a device that uses energy from the sun when placed on a…

  • Wind Power: A Hands-on Experience

    Wind Power: A Hands-on Experience

    This lesson challenges students to work in teams to design successful turbine blades for the “KidWind Firefly”. The firefly has an LED light that lights up when the students have designed turbine blades that spin effectively. This lesson provides students with hands-on experience in designing turbine blades. This will scaffold them nicely into Let’s Build…

  • Where Does Energy Go?

    Where Does Energy Go?

    This lesson consists of six demonstration activities that show examples of ways in which water and air absorb heat to transfer energy from one place to another. These demonstration activities act as unique phenomena in which students can generate questions to lead subsequent investigations with each activity in learning centers. Through gaining content from investigations…

  • Informative Writing: Where Does Energy Come From?

    Informative Writing: Where Does Energy Come From?

    This lesson is a non-fiction research and writing project, which includes a differentiated choice menu and list of ideas for publishing the completed project. Each student will choose one of ten energy sources to research, including coal, natural gas, petroleum, propane, uranium, biomass, wind, geothermal, hydropower and solar. They will write a report on the…

  • Understanding E-Waste Through Battery Design

    Understanding E-Waste Through Battery Design

    In this unit of multi-day lessons, students will further their understanding of energy, electricity, and basic circuits by focusing on batteries and e-waste. Students will build on their existing knowledge of energy, exploring how it is stored and used in everyday life, as well as the role of batteries in energy systems. Hands-on experiments with…

  • Engineering Clean Energy For Our Community

    Engineering Clean Energy For Our Community

    Students will explore how different clean energy methods can power a motor. Using the engineering design process students will evaluate each energy source and relate it to e-waste concepts from previous lessons. They will learn about wind turbines and design a wind turbine. They will learn about solar power and design a solar boat. They…

  • Solar vs Wind Energy Unit

    Solar vs Wind Energy Unit

    Students learn the fundamentals of energy transformation and vocabulary, electrical circuits, explore energy usage in their homes. Students then explore energy generation, including the use of magnetism and renewable energy sources.

  • Variables Affecting Wind Turbine Power

    Variables Affecting Wind Turbine Power

    Students will be learn to identify and explain at least three variables that affect the efficiency of wind turbines and students will conduct a scientific investigation to determine which wind turbine configuration will generate the most power.