Education Resources

Champions for Wind is a professional enhancement and curriculum development programme that operates through a network of secondary school teacher ‘Champions’.

The resources are now available for download and use by any schools interested in teaching students about wind enery and it's associated careers.

A cross-curricular programme for Year 8, building towards a wind turbine STEM activity day

A cross curricular fortnight to prepare our Year 8 students for a full day dedicated to STEM activities based on wind-turbine construction. Drawing on subject-expertise for hour-long input lessons from Citizenship, Maths, Drama, Geography, History and Music we built towards 3 Science lessons that would provide the experimental data on which to base our full-day turbine-construction STEM activity organised by the Technology subjects. English lessons allowed students to review and report their progress over the fortnight.

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Project Organisation (incl. prezi)
Action plan for subjects

A Year 9 multi-subject approach to study the construction of a local offshore wind farm

In the summer term of Year 9 students studied the development of an offshore wind farm visible off the coast of Redcar, Teeside. This was conducted through a range of subjects with each exploring their own subject skills and knowledge. Geography (the needs for renewable energy), Technology (testing different turbine designs), Art (representational presentations of the emerging construction of the offshore turbines) and ICT (researching information about renewable energy and offshore wind farms) all contributed to the final integrated

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Subject topic web
Medium-term planning chart
Lesson activities:

  • Wind turbine: draw & label
  • Types of Renewable energy
  • Types of Renewable energy (2)
  • Wind farm progress tally
  • Wind industry reading codes
  • Turbine design recording sheet
Supporting resources:
  • LEGO Renewable Energy
  • LEGO energy glossary of terms
  • LEGO energy images
  • LEGO Construct a Turbine
  • News article: construction issue
  • Useful website list

Act the Facts - Engaging and gets all pupils involved

The script has 33 Characters whose lines are differentiated to allow every member of the class to participate at a level appropriate to their ability: the PowerPoint Operator has a non-speaking part, Len has a few, short lines, Narrators, Lloyd Sugar and Paddy McInnes say much more. Class teachers would allocate the parts using prior data.

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Act the Facts Script pack – East Yorkshire Version
Act the Facts Script pack - Generic UK version

Build a wind farm on Dogger Bank

A team construction event for Year 7

A series of lessons based on problem-solving the issues of constructing an offshore wind farm on Dogger Bank. “I wanted something that was different to normal lessons that would give the pupils the knowledge about wind and the future..” This Year 7 activity focused on building a wind farm on a map of Dogger Bank.

We also liaised with our primary school neighbours and developed associated activities based on a shore-line field visit overlooking existing offshore turbines, drawing on subject expertise in Geography, Art and Music.

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  • Y7 Dogger Bank project
  • KS1-2 Field activities (art)
  • KS1-2 Field activities (art2)
  • KS1-2 Field activities (music)

Creating careers videos in IT and Business

Resources are as follows:

  • Key Stage 3 Video & Graphics Units
  • Key stage 4 OCR Nationals ICT Unit 23

These resources are editable and can be used with other software if required, please feel free to use.

Blog: www.windchampions.org

Student blog set up in conjunction with the video project.

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Project Synopsis
Presentation - Year 7
Presentation -Year 8
Example maps from Year 7

Cross-Curricular Project Looking at the Experience, Costs and Benefits of Wind Energy

The project involved collaboration between Castleton County Primary school and St Heddas, as part of the Esk Valley partnership of primary schools.

KS1 & 2 pupils were given the opportunity to visit the coast and study the near-shore wind turbines just off the coast at Redcar. Using a cross-curricular approach student analysed their experience of the turbines through Art and Music, and took a cost/benefits analysis approach through geography.

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  • Overview (project synopsis)
  • Beach Art (Sculpture)
  • Beach Art (Sketch)
  • Beach Music (Performance)
  • Questionnaire (attitudes survey)
  • Questionnaire Results
  • School grounds turbine site location
  • School grounds windiest location

Delivering offshore wind through Geography

A series of lessons focussed on the emerging offshore wind industry:
  1. What’s the Big Energy Issue? And what’s Britain’s answer?
  2. Careers and offshore wind farms
  3. The arguments for and against offshore wind farms
  4. Controversy Group presentations
  5. Offshore Wind Farm Issue Resolution
  6. Finding the best Solutions
  7. What does the public think?

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Project Synopsis
Scheme of Work
Supporting files

Is off shore wind the future? Creating Scientific reports to support Dogger Bank

A topic that covers all the new BTEC Award Principles of science for
Unit 3 learning objective B. The idea is that students look at all aspects of electricity
generation with a view to understand why Offshore wind is the most suitable
renewable method for the UK. Looking at electricity generation, supply,
environmental and social impact.

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Project Synopsis
Scheme of Work
Teacher Tracker
Presentation

KS1-2 Offshore Turbine Fieldtrip and Cross-Curricular Follow-up

As part of the Esk Valley we worked with two of our partner schools – Castleton and Glaisdale. We wanted to open the children’s eyes to the issues from the wider local area and how this may affect themselves and other residents and to understand the benefits of wind power and that these may come at a cost. We were able to visit a seaside wind turbine site and take inspiration from what we saw to create pictures and compose music as well as look at the way the wind turbines have affected the local residents, business owners and tourists. From this visit we looked at the pros and cons behind wind power, including looking at the wider jobs field and decided on the best site within our school grounds to site a wind turbine. We also looked at how the wind turbine works and designed our own wind sculpture.

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  • Overview & SoW (8 lessons)
  • Literacy Plan (Discussion)
  • Literacy Plan (Changing Landscapes)
  • Maths Plan
  • Role-play cards
  • Questionnaire survey
  • Survey results
  • Designing a Wind Sculpture
  • Shape poems (ppt)

Opportunities for progression from pupil referral unit

Project Aim: To raise awareness, deliver information and reinforce an understanding and appreciation of:

  • The renewable energy industry.
  • The wind industry, in general, with emphasis on the Forewind project.
  • The Dogger Bank/Crekye Beck Project.
  • The location of the Dogger Bank/Crekye Beck project in relation to its location with Hull and the Holderness area.
  • Careers and job opportunities for young people in the Hull and Holderness area

presented by the Forewind project.

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Project Synopsis
Project Detail
Engineering magazine