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Wind Energy Activities and Worksheets


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Contents

Make a Wind Sock and Weathervane...........................................................................................................3Make a Pinwheel ...........................................................................................................................................4Make a Wind Serpent.................................................................................................................................... 5Help Each Child Find the Way to the Wind-Fest!..........................................................................................6Color the Animals .......................................................................................................................................... 7Connect the Dots Wind Turbine....................................................................................................................8Circle the Things That Are Using the Wind!..................................................................................................9Which Two Wind Turbines Are Exactly Alike?............................................................................................10Help the Wind Turbines Find a Good Home!..............................................................................................11Help the Power of Nature Get to Your Home!.............................................................................................12How Many Words Can You Make?.............................................................................................................13Unscramble the Parts of the Wind Turbine.................................................................................................14True or False Wind Worksheet ...................................................................................................................15Find the Hidden Wind Words! .....................................................................................................................16Take an Electric Inventory of Your Home! ..................................................................................................17Observing the Winds Effects Using the Beaufort Wind Scale....................................................................18

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Make a Wind Sock and Weathervane

Instructions

1. Poke a hole through a foam cup just below the rim (a sharp pencilworks great.)

2. Cut off the toe of a sock or knee-high hose.

3. Stretch the wide end over the cup and tape it to the rim.

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Use scissors to snip the sock where the pencil hole in thecup is.

4. Get a wooden dowel (3/16 inch is a good size) and make sure it is at least threefeet tall. Push a thumb tack through the top of the dowel.Twist it before removingit (youll need the hole later).

5. Slip the wind sock onto the dowel through the hole in the cup. Leave

at least one inch at the top and put some tape around that so the sockwont slide off. Slide a inch washer up the pole to just below thesock and then tape underneath that so the sock wont slip down.

6. Get two straws and cut a small ( inch) slit in each end. Use foursmall squares of construction paper to mark the points of thecompass. Insert them into the straws, glue to secure them, and letthem dry.

7. Pierce the middle of each straw with a thumb tack, then dab on a little gluebefore you secure the whole vane to the dowel (remember that hole you made inthe beginning? Line everything up so it goes back in there!) M re the strawsare perpendicular. Let all of the glue dry.

Setup

Using a compass to find north, position the N of your weathervane topoint in that direction. Gently push it into the ground. The wind sockshould turn with the breeze until it faces into the wind. Your vane willshow which direction the wind is coming from.

Record your observations.



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Make a Pinwheel

Print this sheet and use this drawing as a template. Instructions are below.

Cut on the lines and punch out the holes.

Bring all of the holes to line up with the center hole.

Push a thumb tack through the holes, and push the tack into the eraser.



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Make a Wind Serpent

Print this sheet and use this drawing as a template. Instructions are below.

Thread a string through a hole poked in the X.

Make sure there's a knot in it.

With the help of an adult, carefully hold it under a flame.What happens? Did you make wind?

Dont get it too close to the flame!



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Help Each Child Find the Way to the Wind-Fest!



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Color the Animals

Print this sheet and color the animals. Theyre happy because the wind turbines dont pollute!



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Connect the Dots Wind Turbine

Connect the dots to see what a powerful wind turbine looks like.

Wind Power! The wind spins the big blades of this turbine to make electricity for us!



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Circle the Things That Are Using the Wind!



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Which Two Wind Turbines Are Exactly Alike?



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Help the Wind Turbines Find a Good Home!

Each wind turbine needs about two acres of space. Places that get steady winds, like mountain gapsand shorelines, are the best.

Draw a line from each turbine to a good home.



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Help the Power of Nature Get to Your Home!

Energy from nature to you!



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How Many Words Can You Make?

How many words can you make from the letters in this sentence:

Wind Power Is Cool!

Have a race! See who can come up with the most words in five minutes!

Example: powder

1. _____________________________________ 2. _____________________________________

3. _____________________________________ 4. _____________________________________

5. _____________________________________ 6. _____________________________________

7. _____________________________________ 8. _____________________________________

9. _____________________________________ 10. _____________________________________

11. _____________________________________ 12. _____________________________________

13. _____________________________________ 14. _____________________________________

15. _____________________________________ 16. _____________________________________

17. _____________________________________ 18. _____________________________________

19. _____________________________________ 20. _____________________________________

21. _____________________________________ 22. _____________________________________

23. _____________________________________ 24. _____________________________________

25. _____________________________________



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Unscramble the Parts of the Wind Turbine

The 1.5 MW wind turbine is just one of wind turbines manufactured by GE Wind Energy!

Use these words to label the parts of the 1.5 megawatt wind turbine:

nacelle blade tower base



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True or False Wind Worksheet

1. _________ Wind power is safe, clean, and well never run out of it.

2. _________ One GE Wind Energy 1.5 megawatt wind turbine can produce enough electricity tosupply the annual electricity needs of about 400 homes.

3. _________ Wind is created by the phases of the moon.

4. _________ The Beaufort wind scale uses observations of everyday things to determine wind speed.

5. _________ Windmills have been used for many things, including grinding flour and pumping water.

6. _________ Rembrandt, the famous artist, was the son of a windmiller.

7. _________ A wind turbine uses the power of the wind to produce nuclear energy.

8. _________ A wind farm is a place where pinwheels are planted and grow up to be wind turbines.

9. _________ Steady, consistent wind is necessary for a good wind farm site.

10. ________ Carbon dioxide is the primary greenhouse gas that contributes to global warming.

11.________ The nacelle on a wind turbine is another name for the tower.

12.________ Wind is actually a form of solar energy.

13. ________ For thousands of years, people have harnessed the power of the wind.

Answers: 1. T, 2. T, 3. F, 4. T, 5. T, 6. T, 7. F, 8. F, 9. T 10. T, 11. F, 12. T, 13. T.



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Find the Hidden Wind Words!

See if you can find some words that are important to wind energy. How many can you find?

anemometerblade

certified

clean energy

climate change

controller

drivetrain

electricity

generator

germanischer lloyd

green power

kilowatt

kwea

lake benton

megawatt

nacelle

northern states power

power curve

renewable energy

rgbt converter

rotor

tower

variable speed

windwind speed

wind turbine

windfest

yaw system



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Take an Electric Inventory of Your Home!

People didnt always have electricity in their homes. Today, however, our houses have dozens ofappliances, toys, and tools that use electricity every day. Take an electric inventory of your house and

see just how much we depend on electricity.

Walk through every room of your house and write down all of the things that use electricity. Lookcarefullyits easy to overlook some items. Remember to look in closets and storage spaces like thegarage.

How often is each item used? Every day or only sometimes? How important is the item to the comfortand happiness of your family? Is there something you can think of that could help conserve the amountof electricity the item uses? (Turning off lights when no one is in the room, for example.)

Record your findings on this sheet. Compare your inventory with others. Did they find items youoverlooked? Share your energy conversation ideas with each other.

Room

Electrical

Equipment

How Often

It Is Used

Importance to

the Family

Conservation

Ideas



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Observing the Winds Effects Using the Beaufort Wind Scale

You can measure the effects of the wind without expensive technical equipment by using the Beaufortwind scale.

Admiral Francis Beaufort began his service in the British Royal Navy when he was only 12 years old.For more than 20 years, he observed and studied the wind. In 1805, he devised a scale to determinethe winds speed simply by looking at things around him. His scale still works today.

Go outside and use his scale to observe for yourself the effects of the winds power.

Beaufort NumberDescription and Wind

SpeedObservations Could Look Like This

0Calm

0 to 1 mphSmoke rises vertically

1

Light air

2 to 3 mph Smoke drifts slowly

2Slight breeze4 to 7 mph

Leaves rustle,wind vane moves

3Gentle breeze8 to 12 mph

Twigs move,flags extended

4Moderate breeze

13 to 18 mphBranches move,

dust and paper rise

5Fresh breeze19 to 24 mph

Small trees sway

6Strong breeze25 to 31 mph

Large branches sway,wires whistle

7Moderate gale32 to 38 mph

Trees in motion,walking difficult

8Fresh gale

39 to 46 mphTwigs break off trees

9Strong gale

47 to 54 mphBranches break,

roof damage

10Whole gale

55 to 63 mph

Trees snap,

damage evident

11Storm

64 to 72 mphWidespread damage

12Hurricane

73 to 82 mphExtreme damage


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