Using a case study of the Cape Wind Project in Nantucket Sound, students examine the various points of view of stakeholders, and hold a debate to argue about the pros and cons of this wind energy project. Includes handouts for...

Using a voltage sensor, students will measure how much "electricity" is produced by the wind turbine that they design and build. Students will experiment with blade designs to see which one collects energy from the wind the most...

After studying wind energy, student teams design and test a windmill that has to meet specific criteria. Afterwards, they evaluate the success of their design and how they could improve it.

An interactive animation teaching how a wind turbine works to produce electricity.

Design, build, and test an energy efficient wind turbine that will supply 400 homes with electricity for one year.

Chapter 11 of a report on the energy industry in Texas. It looks at wind energy, its history, and how it is used. The wind power industry in Texas is described, its economic importance, how it is produced and transmitted, and its...

Provided by the National Weather Service, a chart showing current temperature, wind (mph) and the air temperature with the wind chill. Shows the calculation for wind chill at the bottom of the chart and provides a wind chill calculator.

What causes wind? How does wind affect our weather? This website is neatly organized into topics about pressure, gradient force, Coriolis force, geostrophic wind, gradient wind, friction, boundary layer wind, and sea and land breezes....

A mini-unit on wind energy. Young scholars first read a passage about wind energy, and respond to comprehension questions. They then do a lab activity where they build and test a windmill to see how design and placement of the windmill...

This website uses photographs to show the human impact that wind erosion had on people's lives during the Dust Bowl of the 1930s.

Looks at the basic science behind the production of energy from wind.

Learn how blade design affects the power output of a wind turbine. This is a short description but links to extensive information, a PowerPoint, and a lesson on designing your own turbine blades.

This site is on Gone With the Wind. Most information is compiled from the personal archive of David O. Selznick. There is a chronology of the two-year search for Scarlett.

Read about the Winds (Anemoi), the personifications of the wind's various directions. The most important Winds were Zephyrus, Boreas, Notus and Eurus and others were Skiron, Kaikias, Apeliotis and Lips.

This short site provides an overview of wind power, along with links to technical information on wind power, history of wind power, and more.

This animated illustration shows how a wind turbine can generate electricity for homes and communities.

Find out about the renewable energy resource using wind energy technologies. Learn about the use of wind for a stand-alone system, and how one uses it in large-scale wind farms.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes how local winds are formed.

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.

Explains all about wind energy, what it is, how it is produced, potential benefits and costs, etc.

A wind turbine is a machine that captures the force of the wind to produce electricity. Learn how to make a wind turbine as a student or as a teacher. An experiment can be downloaded.

[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about wind and what it can do. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

A video and a short multiple-choice quiz on the topic of air pressure and wind. It explains what makes air pressure change, how we measure it, how wind is created, and types of winds.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How wind can be used to generate power, and its consequences.