Available to schools located in:

Sonoma and Mendocino counties

Lesson Summary:

This lesson explores the connection between the electricity we rely on everyday and Earth's rapidly changing climate. Students work in teams on a STEM challenge with wind energy. Time is given to explore solutions and everyday choices that can make a difference.

STEM Wind Challenge:

Teams work together to generate electricity by designing and creating wind blades capable of spinning a small generator. 

Objectives:

• Students become aware of the connection between electricity generation and global warming. 
• Students become aware of the need to move to renewable energies as sources of electricity generation.
• Students work in groups to complete STEM challenge. 
• Students reflect on the design and engineering process. 
• Students brainstorm ways to increase our use of renewable energy to  power our daily lives.

Next Generation Science Standards:

Earth and Human Activity: MS-ESS3-5

Engineering Design: MS-ETS1-2, MS-ETS1-3 

Scientific and Engineering Practices: asking questions, defining problems, developing and using models, mathematics and computational thinking

Crosscutting Concepts: cause and effect, structure and function, stability and change, systems and system models

Water and Energy Education programs are FREE thanks to funding from these partners: