[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.

Students will create their own windmill and learn how to use the most efficient design by testing theirs against their classmates' projects.

A collection of inquiry-based and hands-on activities to introduce students to wind energy. Includes PowerPoints, labs, and videos.

Intricately detailed paper-folding activity that provides templates and instructions for building a three-dimensional paper model of a windmill. Instructions require download.

Looks at the state of wind energy production in Texas.

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...

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

Wind energy is becoming a viable alternative to more traditional forms of energy generation. For this lesson, students will determine the feasibility of wind generation in different areas of the United States. Finally, students will...

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.

Mankind has used the wind as an energy source for thousands of years. Discover other ways the wind is used to make energy.

Timeline of key milestones in the use of wind as a source of energy.

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...

With this design challenge, students can build a wind-powered turbine that can pump water up from the ground. This site contains tips to complete the design challenge as well as a place for students to document their engineering design...

On this site, there is a challenge for students to engineer a machine that converts wind power into mechanical energy. This site also includes a lesson plan, tips, and a place for students to document their engineering design process.

A nice account of the history of windmills from earliest times to the present. Includes links to other windmill pages.

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

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...

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.

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.

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

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...

A description of how a Santorini windmill is constructed. This windmill is an example of a simple but practical working windmill.

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.

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.