Wind Power: Creating a Wind Generator

This lesson challenges groups of learners to design and construct a wind generator with the most electrical output. The lesson focuses on the engineering design process and how it is used to identify a question (solve a problem), develop a design or change a design, test that design, observe and collect data, analyze that data, and finally, form a conclusion that can inform another round of design. In this activity, learners attempt to maximize the voltage obtained from a wind-driven turbine by conducting several experimental designs. [Activity is publicly available through a web crawler capture on Archive.org. Activity write-up only, images are unavailable.]