Generation Green

This workshop is available for FREE to year 5 and 6 students within Greater Manchester and Buckinghamshire schools and is funded by SEFE. Apply using the form below 👇

Young people learn about electricity and energy, looking at how it’s generated using wind turbines, as well as being challenged to design the perfect blades and get the best pitch of those blades to generate electricity using a wind turbine.

The wind turbine challenge develops students’ teamwork and creativity skills through the design and construction of their blades for a miniature wind turbine. Students then test their wind turbines efficiency using a fan and visual voltmeter to measure electricity output, and following the engineering design cycle of ‘design, test, improve’. The workshop also covers curriculum linked content exploring renewable, none renewable and sustainable electricity generation, explores basic circuits and instils messaging around how we can all be more ‘green’.

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Topics covered:

• Engineering

• Renewable Energy

• Maths
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Logistics and Planning:

• Needs to be delivered in a large classroom, hall or other clear space with a few tables available.

• This session is designed for a group of 30 learners.

• Between 80-120 minutes.

• We ask that a teacher is always present throughout the activities, to support learner engagement and manage behaviour.