PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Curious George Stem: Sail a Boat Lesson Plan
An hands-on lesson where students create a wind powered boat with their knowledge of reusing, recycling of materials, and wind power.
Nature Conservancy
The Nature Conservancy: Renewable Energy
In this lesson, students explore solar and wind power-two important renewable energy sources.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Ninth Literature and Comp: Animal Farm by George Orwell
This lesson focuses on the reading of Animal Farm by George Orwell. It provides links to a study guide and an online text of the novel. It lists The Seven Commandments, Animal Farm's original Constitution and reminds students to pay...
Read Works
Read Works: Catch the Breeze
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about windmills using wind power as a source of electricity. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Build an Anemometer
Students create their own anemometers which are instruments for measuring wind speed. They see how an anemometer measures wind speed by taking measurements at various school locations. They also learn about different types of...
Other
Pembina Institute: Renewable Energy Lesson Plans
There are a variety of lesson plans here on solar and wind energy, and on sustainable transportation.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: The Power of Heat Is Right Under Your Feet!
You might know that we are able to get free energy from the Sun, the wind, and water, but we can also get free energy from Earth itself. This source of energy is called geothermal energy and it is all about taking advantage of the heat...
University of Massachusetts
University of Massachusetts: Aesop's Fables: "The Wind and the Sun"
Learn about the power of kindness while reading this illustrated fable "The Wind and the Sun." Then read the same story with different illustrations to provide a new point of view.
Weather Wiz Kids
Weather Wiz Kids: Wind
What is wind? How is it caused? This site offers simple answers to many common questions about wind as well as a chart of the Beaufort scale, which "is an empirical measure for the intensity of the weather based mainly on wind power."
US Energy Information Administration
U.s. Eia Energy Kids: Energy Sources: Renewable
Find out what renewable energy is and the role it plays in meeting energy needs. Renewable energy sources include biomass, hydropower, geothermal, wind, and solar.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Off the Grid
Students learn and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of renewable and non-renewable energy sources. They also learn about our nation's electric power grid and what it means for a residential home to be "off the grid."
Curated OER
Science Kids: Science Images: Wind Power
This photo shows a huge wind turbine used to harness wind power for energy. The massive structure dwarfs the person visible in the photo and stands against a beautifully blue sky background.
Curated OER
Wikipedia: Featured Image: Windmill in Kuremaa
Kuremaa manor windmill, built probably in the middle of 19.
NASA
Nasa: Climate Kids: Renewable Energy Scientist
A conversation with Tom Zambrano, a scientist who studies wind and ocean energy.
Other
Bsi Education: Alternative Energy
The Applied Science resource consists of practical activities that demonstrate the importance of standard procedures in scientific work. Students examine alternative energy through a variety of activities. Some topics investigated are...
Other
Windmill Works: The Case of Geronimo's Headress Part 1
A short fill-in-the-blank exercise on identifying the correct modal verb forms. Read a short paragraph about Geronimo's headress and then choose the correct verb in the following paragaph. Hints are available.
NPR: National Public Radio
Npr: What Are the Non Wind and Non Solar Renewable Resources in Texas?
An overview of renewable energy resources in Texas, aside from wind and solar energy. Covers hydropower, geothermal energy, and biomass.
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)
Smile: The Air Out There
Cooperative learning activity in which students will create a windmill and a weather vane. Students will find the direction of wind and the speed relative to the spinning windmill. Great for K-2.
Other
Texas Wide Open for Business: The Texas Renewable Energy Industry [Pdf]
A 34-page report examining renewable energy sources in use in Texas. It looks at how Texas compares with the rest of the world, the companies investing in the Texas energy industry, the Texas electricity grid, government initiatives,...
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