Wind Farming - Video from The Futures Channel
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| Audience/Grade: | 7-Graduate |
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Design Green Design and Sustainable Engineering Mechanical Engineering |
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| Learning Resource Type: |
Teaching - Lecture/Presentation |
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Organization:The Futures Channel |
| Description: | Digital video from the Futures Channel. Synopsis: "Soaring 260 feet in the air with a wingspan the length of a football field, it is possible for a single wind turbine to produce enough energy to power 750 homes. Introduce your students to three engineers who use everything from algebra to physics and problem solving to statistics to provide us with a clean, renewable energy source. The movie features a visit to the largest wind farm in New York, Maple Ridge Wind Farm, a joint venture between Horizon Wind Energy and PPM Energy." Running time 5:55 minutes. |
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| Keywords: | wind energy wind turbines careers |
| Is Component of: |
The Futures Channel |
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| Use of Resource: |
The video comes with a lesson plan for grades 7-12. There are also images and role models. Concepts: - Energy - Potential energy - Kinetic energy - Efficiency Knowledge and Skills: - Knows that energy can have many forms and be converted from one form to another. - Can explain how the principle of conservation of energy applies in real world scenarios involving energy transfer. - Knows that the conversion of energy from one form to another generally involves the dispersion of some of that energy as heat. |
| Difficulty: |
Easy |
| Interactivity Level: |
Medium |
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| Publication Date: | September 2007 |
| Platform/Format: |
WWW |
| Cost: |
Free |
| Download URL: | http://www.thefutureschannel.com/dockets/science_technology/wind_ |
| Metadata: |
IEEE LOM Record |
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NEEDS
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