More than half of students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education.
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This is an interdisciplinary project built around the story of William Kamkwamba - The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind. In physics and engineering, students will learn about energy transfer and efficiency, and attempt to engineer their own wind-powered cell phone charger.
Students' energy measurements in physics class will inform their design revisions in engineering as they build successively more complex turbine designs. For example, by upgrading to a more powerful generator, they'll also deal with increased friction. How can you redesign your fins so that the generator shaft still turns?
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This is an interdisciplinary project built around the story of William Kamkwamba - The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind. In physics and engineering, students will learn about energy transfer and efficiency, and attempt to engineer their own wind-powered cell phone charger.
Students' energy measurements in physics class will inform their design revisions in engineering as they build successively more complex turbine designs. For example, by upgrading to a more powerful generator, they'll also deal with increased friction. How can you redesign your fins so that the generator shaft still turns?