Can wind power your classroom?
Description
Students will learn about energy consumption and production in this lesson. By conducting a simple energy audit and researching wind energy production, they will gain a solid understanding of how much wind energy/how many turbines it would take to power their consumption habits. Students will also learn to differentiate power versus energy.
Next Generation Science Standards
Disciplinary Core Ideas
- PS2.A Forces and Motion
- PS3.A Definitions of Energy
- PS3.C Relationship Between Energy and Forces
- ETS1.A Defining and Delimiting an Engineering Problem
Cross Cutting Concepts
- Energy and Matter
- Scale, Proportion, and Quantity
Learning Objectives
At the end of the lesson students will be able to