Wind Power!

Wind is an inexhaustible energy resource. We have been looking at the pros and cons of wind farms and how wind turbines work. We created our own pinwheels. Then, we looked at what variables we could change to see what how the pinwheel worked best. Some of the variables we changed were blade size, materials and wind strength. Also, we are lucky enough to have an actual turbine with a small, visible generator in our classroom that generates enough power to light up a small bulb. This really helped us to see and understand how wind turbines work!

Fossil Fuels

Room 3 children have been learning about renewable and non-renewable resources. Everyone was given a chocolate chip biscuit to represent the earth with the chocolate chips representing the fossil fuels such as coal. We were also given a paper clip to begin 'mining' the natural resources.

Each of us had to dig carefully to protect the land because that is where humans, plants and animals live however after we had removed the 'coal', the land looked like "it was all broken", "obliterated", "a pile of dust", "all broken up" and "basically nothing".

We realised that once we had removed the 'coal' (chips) that they would not come back because fossil fuels take millions of years to form.

Take a look at the pictures of us 'mining' below.