This kit provides a wide range of activities to explore energy and wind. Create art with air, use wind to move a car and harness the power of energy!
This kit includes:
Activity Binder
- Librarian Instructions
- Inventory List
- Booklist/Introduction
- Pictures of trunk organization
- Wind Cars
- Wind Car Sail Templates (4 patterns)
- Air Paintbrush
- Powered by Light: Solar Cells
- How Many Ways to Turn on a Light?
- Using a Digital Multimeter to Test Voltage
- Windmills
- Windmill Blade Template
- Consumable and Restocking List
- Powered by the Wind Supplement
- Make a Pinwheel- Curious George
- Make Your Own Pinwheel
- Pinwheel Pattern
- Project Paper Pinwheels
- Introducing Wind Power: Essentials for Bringing It into the Classroom
- Electricity from the Wind
- Energy Fuel for Thought
- How do windmills generate power?
- What’s Really Going on in Electric Circuits?
- What exactly is energy?
- What Children Gain by Learning Through Inquiry
- The right question at the right time
- Parent surveys
- 5 laminated activity sheets
Books
- Gilberto and the Wind by Marie Hall Ets
- Energy Makes Things Happen by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
- The Windy Day by Anna Milbourne and Elena Temporin
- Hot Air: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Hot-Air Balloon Ride by Marjorie Priceman
- The Wind Blew by Pat Hutchins
- Like a Windy Day by Frank Asch & Devin Asch
- The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer
- I Face the Wind by Vicki Cobb
- Can You See the Wind? by Allan Fowler
- Air is All Around You by Franklyn M. Branley
- Pinwheel by Salina Yoon
Wind Cars
- Car bodies
- Wooden dowels
- Bag of foam sails
- Fans
Air Paintbrush
- Paint cups with lids and funnel lids
Powered by Light: Solar Cells
- Solar cell: monkey
- Solar cell: pandas
- Solar cell: frog
- Solar cell: red flower
- Solar cell: black beetle
- Solar cell: gold beetle
- Clip on LED desk lamp
- Flashlights
Windmills
- Pre-made “party” windmills
- Bags of Knex pieces for windmills
- Bags of pre-made windmill blades
- Peg boards
How Many Ways to Turn on a Light?
- Wire strippers
- Digital multimeter
- Hand generators
- Solar cells
- Battery holders
- Buzzers
- LEDs
- Motors
- Windmills
- Cables
- Multimeter directions
- Energy conversion kit study guides
To Be Provided by Borrowing Library*
- Drinking straws
- Bottle of blue tempera paint
- Bottle of red tempera paint
- AA batteries
- Electrical tape
- Craft foam
- Copy paper
- Pipettes
- Additional flashlights
- Additional solar toys
*Some of these materials are provided in the kit but may be recommended to purchase as they will not be restocked by NMSL in the future.
Please see the attached user manual for larger images, manuals, and inventory.
Each trunk contains an activity binder as well as activity materials. Some materials will be up to you to provide but most of the materials have been included; please read through the activity binder and user guide to determine which materials you’ll need to provide.
Also included in the activity binder is a complete inventory of the activity trunk.
Please verify inventory is correct when you return the trunk and sign and date the inventory. If any materials are missing, please notify us as soon as possible, and make note of it on the inventory.
There are also parent/caregiver surveys we would like you to provide after each program using the trunk. Please make additional copies as needed.
Your completed inventory and any completed surveys should be placed inside the trunk and returned with the trunk to the New Mexico State Library.