PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Off the Grid
This interactive activity produced for Teachers' Domain presents users with three hypothetical scenarios in which they are challenged to design a wind power system that will meet their electrical needs.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Thar She Blows!
Students learn about wind as a source of renewable energy and explore the advantages and disadvantages wind turbines and wind farms. They also learn about the effectiveness of wind turbines in varying weather conditions and how engineers...
Read Works
Read Works: William's Windmill by Kate Paixao
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage is about what windmills can do; it is followed by a comprehension question set and a vocabulary worksheet for the word "village" is provided.
FT Exploring
Ft Exploring: Wind Turbines and the Energy in Wind
Discover the science concepts behind wind turbines and wind energy.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Fourth Grade: Physical Science: Moving Air and Water as Energy Sources
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Discusses wind energy and hydroelectric energy.
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
The National Academies: Renewable Sources: Wind
The status of wind energy production in the United States is described, with the advantages and disadvantages of this alternative energy source.
Energy for Sustainable Development
Kinds and Energy: Wind Energy
Wind is air in motion. It is produced by the uneven heating of the earth's surface by the sun. Since the earth's surface is made of various land and water formations, it absorbs the sun's radiation unevenly. When the sun is shining...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: How Does a Wind Meter Work?
On a windy day it is hard to keep your hat on. The power of the wind can even be strong enough to power large wind turbines to make electricity. In this experiment, find out how you can make your own instrument to measure the speed and...
US Department of Energy
U.s. Department of Energy: Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
Access to information, policy initiatives, advice, and analysis on issues of energy efficiency and renewable energy, from the U.S. Department of Energy. Its network is responsible for tracking the technological, economic, and...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Curious George Stem: Fan and Blow Lesson Plan
Students will investigate different ways to wind can move things. They will blow, wave, and fan to move objects across a table.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: How Wind Affects Various Objects
In this activity, students experiment with various objects in a wind tunnel. Together, they record predictions and data in a class data table. Students will then use the information gained in the experiment to draw conclusions about the...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Sailing on the Wind
This is a hands-on instructional activity that uses science and the steps of the Engineering Design Process to determine important properties in sail design materials and learn how to harness wind power. Learners will learn that a...
PBS
Pbs Kids: Design Squad Game: Fidgit Power
Help Fidgitville by designing wind turbines that make electricity and keep the air and water clean.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Harnessing Wind
This instructional activity introduces the ways that engineers study and harness the wind. Students will learn about the different kinds of winds and how to measure wind direction. In addition, students will learn how air pressure...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Curious George Stem: Sail a Boat Lesson Plan
An hands-on lesson plan 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 activity, 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."