Wind Lesson Plans

What a wonderful way to explore wind power! Through this lesson, learners get a background in the history of wind power, create their own wind turbine, and the test their designs. This is a terrific way to tie scientific principles to real life examples.

Students build models of wind turbines and experiment with different designs that will improve efficiency. Students will understand the use of wind power as a renewable resource.

Students listen to the story The Contest between the Sun and the Wind.  In this Sun and Wind story students answer comprehension questions and retell the story through role playing with character puppets.  Students create paper plate suns and wind pictures. Students look for rhyming words from the book.

Students read a book and observe the wind and how it affects the environment. In this lesson about the wind, students explore what wind does by looking at pictures, reading a book, and by completing an experiment. Students will use their own knowledge of the wind and compare it with the new information they obtain. In addition, students have the opportunity to experiment with many different objects on a windy day to see how the winds affects these objects.

Students construct and compare different types of windmills. For this wind energy lesson, students use videos and interactive resources to research the history and design of windmills. They use a template to help them construct a windmill. They compare the effectiveness of the different windmill designs.

Students explore the concept of wind. They observe the wind each day and decide if it's a lamb or lion day. They will chart it in their weather journals and record it on a bar graph.

Students study the generation of electricity by building a model anemometer to demonstrate and measure wind speed. They examine different types of wind turbines and the factors that influence their success.

Learners explore what causes wind, why wind behaves as it does, early cultural beliefs about wind, high and low pressure systems, basic fluid dynamics, units of measurement for wind, and how lift is caused; students create and fly kites.

Fourth graders investigate wind erosion and how to prevent unwanted erosion. They define key vocabulary terms, create an interactive diorama that demonstrates how wind causes erosion and deposition of sand and soil, and watch a video.

First graders make a kite. In this wind lesson, 1st graders discuss origins of wind, effects of wind and uses of wind. Students use the Internet to learn about wind energy. Students discuss how kite flying can be a good form of exercise and then work in groups to assemble a kite.