Physical+Energy+-+Wind

=Wind Energy = =Who are we?= Denton Dynamos - New York - Giselle, Gurleen, Nicolas, and Billy Collaborative Class - Nevada - Alyssa, Jocelyn, Terry, and Jorge =Our Experiments = media type="youtube" key="JBT5h_yTXwE?fs=1" height="385" width="480" media type="youtube" key="0khDiIw5oQg?fs=1" height="385" width="480"

Your assignment is to complete each sentence below. Then, perform some experiments proving your answers. Keep careful records of your results. Choose one experiment you would like the whole class to perform. Include that experiment below. Finally, answer the essential questions on the home page. Include the answers below.

== Our Incomplete Sentences: ==
 * 1) Wind Energy can be found:
 * 2) An example of wind energy in its potential form is:
 * 3) An example of wind energy in its kinetic form is:
 * 4) An example of wind energy transforming to another form of energy is:

== Our Experiment: == 

==Our Essential Questions: ==


 * === Our Energy Experiment **- Denton Dynamos** === ||  || === Wind Energy [[file:Wind Energy Experiment.doc]]  === ||   ||   || ===<span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;"> Our Energy Experiment  === ||   || <span style="color: #00ff00; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Wind Energy ||
 * ====<span style="font-size: 1.06em; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;"><span style="font-size: 1.06em; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">** Potential - Kinetic Energy ** ==== ||   ||   ||   ||   || ====<span style="font-size: 1.06em; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;"><span style="color: #00ff00; font-size: 1.06em; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">Transforming Energy  ==== ||   ||   ||
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Question: (What question were you trying to investigate?) ||  || <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">-What effect does wind have on a moving soccer ball? ||   ||   || <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Question: (What question were you trying to investigate?) ||   || <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">- <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 13px; line-height: 13px;">If you increase the amount of air in a balloon, will it turn the axle it is attached to at a greater speed? ||
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Hypothesis: (What did you think was going to happen?) ||  || <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">- The wind will affect the soccer ball by moving it farther in the direction the wind is blowing. ||   ||   || <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Hypothesis: (What did you think was going to happen?) ||   || <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">- <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 13px; line-height: 13px;">When the balloon is inflated twice as much the axle will spin faster. ||
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Method: (How did you test your question?) ||  || <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">-

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">(1) Get the soccer ball, masking tape, tape measure, and the large fan and go into an open space. Set up a line of masking tape on the ground. The kicker will always be behind this line.

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">(2) Move the fan (variable) just to the right of the soccer ball and move it far out. Make sure the ball can reach the fan if you kick it.

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">(3) Turn on the fan and kick the soccer ball so its direction crosses the path of the fan’s wind. Measure how far to the left the ball has traveled from the site of the kick.

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">(4) Move the fan (variable) so it is blowing against the ball when it is kicked. The person (helper) holds the fan far so the soccer ball won’t hit it but close enough were the fan can effect it.

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">(5) Now, when you’ve adjusted the fan, you can kick the ball. Record how far the ball went.

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">(6) Now, move the fan (variable) so it is right behind the kicker. Kick the ball and see how far it goes. ||  ||   || <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Method: (How did you test your question?) ||   || <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">- <span style="font-family: ArialMT,sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 13px;">1. <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 13px; line-height: 13px;">Inflate the balloon to stretch it out a bit. 2. Slip the nozzle end of the balloon over the end of the straw farthest away from the bend. Use a short piece of plastic tape to seal the balloon to the straw. The balloon should inflate when you blow through the straw. 3. Bend the opposite end of the straw at a right angle. 4. Lay the straw and the balloon on an outstretched finger so that it balances and mark the balances point. Push the pin through the straw at the balance point and then continue pushing the pin into the eraser of the pencil and finally into the wood itself. 5. Spin the straw a few times to loosen up the hole the pin has made. 6. Blow in the straw to inflate the balloon to about the size of a golf ball, then let go of the straw and note the speed it spins. Repeat, but inflate the balloon to about double the size of the first trial. Note if the speed increases. || <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">2) sewing pin.  <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">3)round party balloon. <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">4) flexible soda straw.  <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">5) plastic tape. ||
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Materials: ||  || <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">- soccer ball, large fan, tape measure ||   ||   ||   ||   || <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">1) wooden pencil with an eraser on one end.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Variable ||  || <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">- direction of wind ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Observations/Results: (What did you discover?) ||  || <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">-[[file:Wind Power Worksheet.doc]] ||   ||   || <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Observations/Results: (What did you discover?) ||   || <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">- ||
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Conclusion: (Was your hypothesis correct? Why do you think things turned out the way they did?) ||  || <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">- ||   ||   || <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Conclusion: (Was your hypothesis correct? Why do you think things turned out the way they did?) ||   || <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">- ||
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Further Questions: (What other kinds of experiments could you do in the future related to this topic? What other questions would be interesting to ask?) ||  || <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">- ||   ||   || <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Further Questions: (What other kinds of experiments could you do in the future related to this topic? What other questions would be interesting to ask?) ||   || <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">- ||
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