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Science Buddies: Make the Wind Work for You! ActivityScience Buddies: Make the Wind Work for You! Activity
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Science Buddies
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6th - 8th
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Science
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Lexile Measures
1110L
Activity

Science Buddies: Make the Wind Work for You!

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Find out how a wind turbine can use the power of the wind to generate energy in this science fair engineering project. You will get to design various blades to find out which produces the most energy, and at what wind speeds they are most optimal.

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Concepts

aerodynamics, energy, wind energy, work

Additional Tags

airfoil, blade, nacelle, propeller, rotor, rotor wing, science fair project idea, aerodynamics science fair project, science buddies, wind turbine

Classroom Considerations

  • Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

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