Climate Literacy
Clean: Wind Energy Using Google Earth
In this activity students 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.
Science4Fun
Science4 Fun: Wind Energy
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.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Wind Power Study Guide
[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.
Energy4Me
Energy4me: Wind Energy
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.
Technovation
Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Build a Wind Powered Sailboat
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...
Other
Siemens Science Day: Physical Science: Blowin' in the Wind
Students will create their own windmill and learn how to use the most efficient design by testing theirs against their classmates' projects.
Other
Windmill World: History of Windmills
A nice account of the history of windmills from earliest times to the present. Includes links to other windmill pages.
Other
Kid Wind Project: Teacher Resources
A collection of inquiry-based and hands-on activities to introduce students to wind energy. Includes PowerPoints, labs, and videos.
Other
Canon 3 D Paper Craft Buildings: Windmill
Intricately detailed paper-folding activity that provides templates and instructions for building a three-dimensional paper model of a windmill. Instructions require download.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Environment for Kids: Wind Power
Kids learn about wind energy and how this renewable power can help the environment. Teach students about turbines that generate electricity from the wind.
State Energy Conservation Office-Texas
State Energy Conservation Office: Roping the Texas Breezes [Pdf]
Looks at the state of wind energy production in Texas.
National Geographic
National Geographic: Energy Solutions: Tapping Into Topography of Lake Turkana
In this lesson, students read and analyze articles about the alkaline water in Lake Turkana in Kenya, and about a wind energy project near Lake Turkana. They then examine the many factors that must be considered when undertaking this...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Wind Power
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How wind can be used to generate power, and its consequences.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Blowing in the Wind
Wind energy is becoming a viable alternative to more traditional forms of energy generation. In this lesson plan, students will determine the feasibility of wind generation in different areas of the United States. Finally, students will...
American Geosciences Institute
American Geosciences Institute: Wind: Background
A reference page on wind. Learn about the properties of air that allow wind to form as well as how wind is used to make energy. The page also describes the advantages and disadvantages to wind energy.
US Energy Information Administration
U.s. Eia Energy Kids: Renewable Energy: Wind
Mankind has used the wind as an energy source for thousands of years. Discover other ways the wind is used to make energy.
US Energy Information Administration
U.s. Eia Energy Kids: Energy Timelines: Wind
Timeline of key milestones in the use of wind as a source of energy.
Seeker
Discovery News: Weather & Extreme Events: Wind Farms Warming Texas
This article looks at findings by researchers in Texas that wind farms actually warm the ground beneath them at night, leading to increased night-time temperatures. A cautious approach to implementing alternative energy strategies is...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Wild Winds: Detecting Turbulence Around Structures
Watch out. It's Eddy Vortex, Superhero. He swirls, he tumbles, he churns up air and water. OK, maybe eddies and vortices aren't exactly superheroes, but they are powerful regions of air and water flow that you have to watch out for in...
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Science: Cyprus Dancing School: What Sort of Energy Is Provided by the Wind?
Chara is finding out a lot about the wind and how it can provide energy to us. Join her in Cyprus to learn along with her.
Creative Science Centre
Creative Science Centre: Wind and Wave and Other Power
A collection of links to projects and information on how to make different types of windmills, and a wave powered electricity generator.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Spinning Your Wheels: Pinwheel Sensitivity
So you've just heard the "Happy Birthday" song and now it's time to blow out the candles. If you are sitting far away from the candles, you know you'll have to blow harder to get them all out than if you were sitting closer. In this...
Creative Science Centre
Creative Science Centre: A Santorini Windmill
A description of how a Santorini windmill is constructed. This windmill is an example of a simple but practical working windmill.
Open Library of the Internet Archive
Open Library: Jan of the Windmill by Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing
This ebook version of Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing's Jan Of The Windmill has been made available in multiple formats by the Open Library. Editions of the full novel, organized by year of publication, may be accessed here.