Renewable Energy: Lesson & STEM Challenge (Grades 5-6)
Earth Day 2025
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Grade 5: Science and Technology – Exploring and Understanding Concepts,
Conservation of Energy and Resources
E2.1, E2.2, E2.3, E2.4, E2.5, E2.6
Grade 6: Science and Technology – Electrical Phenomena, Energy, and Devices
C1.1, C1.2
STEM Challenge
Challenge students to explore a common source of renewable energy on farms – wind turbines.
These are complicated and very technical mechanisms but we can make simple examples with common objects.
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Word wall
Expand students’ ability to talk about the forms of energy and considerations about the environment.
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Engineering Design Process poster
Students will apply the Engineering Design Process by addressing a problem, imagining and choosing a solution, and making and testing a creation.
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Assessment
Designed with your limited time in mind, the assessment tool will help you evaluate your students’ progress.
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