Tornado winds can reach more than 200 miles per hour. Learners explore wind speeds and more characteristics of tornadoes with an online lesson. They learn how tornadoes form and how scientists attempt to predict them. Can be used as an...

Music is a universal pleasure, but writing about it can be a little trickier. An informative handout discusses common types of music writing assignments that one might encounter in a college-level course. Individuals read about musical...

Walking through the ancient Nabataean city of Petra can be a challenge. A tour begins with a 20-minute walk down a rocky slope through the narrow Siq to get to the famous Treasury known to Indiana Jones fans. But that is...

It actually is possible to have too much of a good thing when it comes to climate change. A slide show lesson describes how burning fossil fuels contributes to climate change. Individuals read about the scientific process and the...

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

This Eight Planets site briefly describes solar wind, a low density stream of charged particles emitted by the Sun. It also provides the basics on the sun's composition and additional sun links.

Find out about wind and jet streams and the tools that measure them.

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

Wind data at several Missouri locations. Information on wind availability, rotor types, and uses.

Animated interactive helps young researchers understand how winds develop.

An article explaining how severe winds can lead to devastation and destroy homes, land, and injure people. Learn about different typhoons and cyclones and the effects they have had on our land.

Instructions for building a windmill using wood.

An introduction to the topic of wind erosion, containing historical examples of the hardships it has imposed, as well as a description of the present threat that it still poses to the American Midwest.

Read background information and the history of the music of the popular Grammy award winning band of the 1970s, Earth, Wind, & Fire.

An overview of renewable energy resources in Texas, aside from wind and solar energy. Covers hydropower, geothermal energy, and biomass.

The status of wind energy production in the United States is described, with the advantages and disadvantages of this alternative energy source.

This is a technical site from MIT. It provides data and information from satellites which observe solar winds. Provide 3-D models of the heliosphere and uptodate plots of solar wind data.

Kids learn about wind including how it is formed, how it is measured, local and global winds including prevailing, westerlies, trade, and polar easterlies.

Facts and resources for kids regarding the Cave of the Winds.

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."

Kids learn about wind energy and how this renewable power can help the environment. Teach students about turbines that generate electricity from the wind.

Kids learn by experimenting with science. Project showing how wind is created.

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...

A collection of links to projects and information on how to make different types of windmills, and a wave powered electricity generator.