Do you think you can design a wind turbine that supplies energy to 400 homes at the highest efficiency and lowest cost? Try your hand at turbine design in this interactive activity that allows you design, build, and test a device to convert wind energy to kinetic energy to mechanical energy.

Concepts

wind energy

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Additional Tags

alternative energy, engineering design process, science of everyday life: wind energy virtual lab, wind turbine, environmental engineering

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 1 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
• The intended use for this resource is Instructional|practice