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Wind Power Challenge

5th Jun 2019

We have been continuing with our ‘energy’ topic and today we worked in groups to plan and make a simple wind turbine capable of lifting a plastic cup (with coins) off the floor to table height.

We were given the following materials;

  • scrap card
  • sellotape 
  • masking tape
  • a pencil
  • scissors 
  • string
  • plastic cups 
  • Coins  
  • a hairdryer 

We definitely have some budding engineers in the making. Our winning team were able to design a wind turbine that could lift a cup holding 4 10p coins!