HO SHOULD ATTEND?
FOR THE ATTENDEES:
AGENDA
8:00 a.m. Registration
Pick up materials and conference supplies.
8:30 a.m. Welcome and Wind Energy Bingo
Welcome! Review goals and objectives for the workshop and begin planning ways to use the NEED and KidWind materials and training in your school. Play Wind Energy Bingo!
9:15 a.m. Science of Energy
Learn about energy transformations, forms of energy, and their connections to the electricity we use.
9:45 a.m. Electric Connections
Where does our electricity come from? This quick activity will give you a snapshot of today’s electricity picture.
10:00 a.m. Wind Energy 101
10:30 a.m. Accessing Wind for Schools Data – Open EI
Connecting the Wind for Schools generation data to the classroom.
Elementary/Intermediate |
Intermediate/secondary |
10:45 a.m. Teaching Language Arts with Wind Use interdisciplinary lessons to integrate more wind in the classroom. 11:45 a.m. Lunch & presentations of Language Arts activities 12:45 p.m. Exploring Wind Activities Create a model to do work Build your own anemometer Explore blade variables
2:30 p.m. Siting & Mapping Measuring Tall Objects |
10:45 a.m. MacGyver Wind Power 11:45 a.m. Lunch & presentations of Language Arts 12:45 p.m. Blade Design/Theory & KidWind Challenges 2:45 p.m. Advanced Siting Activities
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3:15 p.m. Paperwork and Other Stuff: Complete Workshop Evaluations, Post-workshop assessment.
3:30 p.m. Adjourn
Special Thank you to
US Department of Energy Wind for Schools Program