STEM Challenge Build a Windmill
- Zip
What educators are saying
Also included in
Here’s a set of three STEM activities you will love that involve using wind power to propel something. Students will be building a wind-powered boat, a wind-powered car, and a windmill! It’s all part of a seasonal package celebrating the windy month of March! These challenges can be used at any timPrice $8.50Original Price $10.50Save $2.00
Are you looking for STEM Challenges that will fill your entire year? This seasonal bundle has it all! Perfect STEM Challenges for each month of the school year. This money-saving bundle will give you three challenges per month.This is all you will need to get started in STEM - with exciting, engaginPrice $75.00Original Price $105.00Save $30.00
Are you looking for challenges specific to 5th grade? This is an amazing collection of student-tested STEM Activities. It includes 20 best-selling STEM Challenges, a Bonus Multi-day Project, and a Design Poster Set.Note: Each of the challenges is available individually and in other money-saving bundPrice $58.00Original Price $70.50Save $12.50
Description
It’s time for windy weather, kite flying, spring fever, and March Madness! Why not throw a little STEM Activity into the mix! This spectacular challenge features building a spinning windmill. Your students will love piecing this structure together and creating a way to make the blades turn.
Note: This challenge may be purchased as part of money-saving bundles!
What is the challenge?
- Students will be using materials to design a windmill that has turning blades that are powered by the wind.
- Students will decide what to use for the turning mechanism and ensure that it turns well.
- They will also design the blades of the windmill to best catch the wind and turn smoothly.
- The design of the windmill tower itself comes into play as it must provide a stable platform on which to place the turning mechanism and blades.
What is your prep?
You will need supplies in addition to this package. This includes Cardboard tubes, craft sticks, masking tape, round objects that have center holes, straws, dowel sticks or wooden skewers, rubber bands, pipe cleaners, paper-card stock, construction paper, copy paper, and a fan.
The package specifically includes:
- Cover
- Teacher background
- Materials and preparation page
- 6 pages of teacher directions
- Constraints list
- 4 pages of photographs
- Extra Information page about Windmills
- Extra Hints page
- Student lab sheet with sample answers
- Scoring rubric
- Terms of Use
Also, this challenge includes a file with forms in an editable format. The page count listed for this package includes everything.
This challenge will need 1-2 class sessions (2 hours) to complete.
This challenge works perfectly with two other wind-powered challenges:
Or you can purchase all three as part of money-saving bundles:
*****************************************************************************
You might also like these STEM Challenges:
- Build a Bottle Car- featuring Newton’s 3rd Law
- Build an Egg Car- featuring Newton’s 2nd Law
- Build a Newton’s Cradle- featuring Newton’s 3rd Law
*****************************************************************************
Be the first to know about my new discounts, freebies, and product launches:
Click here to follow my store. It’s that easy to receive email updates about Teachers Are Terrific!
Thank you so much,
Teachers Really are Terrific!
