Assemble a wind turbine with a 4M research kit that captures wind energy and converts it into light. Learn more about renewable energy sources, important for the conservation of the Earth's ecology. The set is suitable for children from 8 years of primary school.
In the set you will find detailed instructions with pictures and the necessary details for assembling a wind turbine.
How to test the finished model? To run outdoors, hold the plastic bottle upright with one hand and point the rotor toward the wind. Fill the bottle halfway with water to make it more stable, and place the generator on the ground. The wind turbine converts wind energy into light, so the LED is lit. The wind presses on the rotor blade, forcing it to rotate always in one direction. The stronger the wind, the faster the rotor rotates. Try taking a model of the wind turbine outside in the evening and see how the LED lights up when the wind blows. To run the model indoors, you can use a household electric fan powered by the mains to simulate the wind.
What gives children a research kit? In the process of assembling a wind turbine model, children gain design skills, develop thinking, ingenuity, intelligence, expand their horizons, become more attentive, focused, inquisitive, learn to patiently go to the result. And all this without the Internet and gadgets, which will surely appeal to parents and educators. Green Science research kits engage children in the world of science by building and running interesting models. The set is well suited for classes at home, in primary school, in STEAM educational courses.
What is the model's work based on? When the rotor rotates fast enough, the LED will light up, indicating that the wind turbine is generating electricity. Its principle of operation is simple: it converts wind energy into light. Wind moves air masses linearly, and everything that moves has energy. The generator blades capture this energy and convert it into rotation. The generator transforms the kinetic energy of the blades into an electric current that feeds the LED.
Wind energy & ndash; renewable energy source. It has long been used to grind grain into flour. Windmills were built for this purpose. Nowadays, wind energy is used to produce electricity. The largest wind farm in the world is located in Texas, USA. There are 421 wind generators in total. It produces 735 megawatts of energy, enough to boil half a million teapots at a time.
The set won 8 awards at international special exhibitions in Italy, Hong Kong, Brazil, USA from 2008 to 2016.
In the set: rotor, rotor shaft, front and rear parts of the case, 2 halves of the cap with a thread for the bottle, tail, rotor shaft, motor with gear, motor cover, 8 small screws, LED with wires, 1 gear with metal axis. Additionally required (not included): plastic bottle, small Phillips screwdriver. No batteries required.
