Grade Five Alive!

Today was a an awesome day. We designed our own windmills!

All we needed to make a windmill is a carton, string, cup with a hole punch, material and popsicle sticks for the turbines (or blades), Styrofoam ball for the hub, for the turbines, and a wooden stick for the dowel. Put it all together and you have a windmill and it’s all yours! My partner and I used an octagon shape on our four, medium-sized turbines.

Next get a fan, plug it in, turn it on, and let the windmill go!

After we finished designing it our own way, we tested the windmill working to lift a cup of pennies. The most pennies lifted was almost 100! All of our designs were successful!

~Hannah