Welcome! Sign In or Try it Free!
Search Over 150,000 Teacher Reviewed Lesson Plans and 75,000 Worksheets
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 5th
- Rating
Students explore the importance of wind in a variety of cross-curricular methods--language, music, and technology. They examine wind in their lives, consider wind music, and construct wind-powered inventions. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 10th
- Rating
Students identify wind words such as breeze, gale, storm, hurricane. They define wind measurements mph and knots and interpret wind speeds through observation. They construct a weather instrument and prepare graphs from self-collected data. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 8th - 10th
- Rating
Students observe and describe the wind, analyze their descriptions for clarity, and compare them both with Jonas Ramoth's descriptions and with the Beaufort Wind Scale. observations. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 4th
- Rating
Students investigate temperature, wind speed, humidity, air pressure, and direction. They compare their findings with those of the media. They apply the use of various tools to measure weather factors. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 4th
- Rating
Students measure wind speed, air pressure, humidity, temperature, and wind direction. They compare their observations with those of actual weather forecasts. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 4th
- Rating
Students watch an experiment that demonstrates the causes of wind. They design and make an original weather craft. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
- Rating
Student study how solar heating generates wind and how wind can be harnessed to be used to generate electricity. They analyze wind power curves and visit a wind generated power plant. Also, they watch a number of computer based videos showing how to place a wind plant. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 5th
- Rating
Students use Internet sites to complete a study of weather and atmosphere. They compare weather data from cities around the world. They use thermometers, the Beaufort wind scale, and simple weather symbols to measure weather around the school. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
- Rating
Students analyze a variety of curves that describe the power extracted from the wind by a variety of commercially produced wind turbines. They utilize site specific topographic maps and political boundary data to evaluate and make recommendations to their class and community about potential sites for future wind development. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 10th
- Rating
Students build set of weather instruments (anemometer, wind vane, and rain gauge) and use them to collect weather data over a period of two weeks. They compare the data collected form the home-made instruments to commercially-made models. Full Review »
Link to This
Email This
Share