For our topic we have been using the resource “Vaila’s Windy Day” to learn about wind and wind power.

P234 discussed how the wind helps us and ways we can use wind affects our daily lives. They used their discussion to inspire their drawings which were submitted in a competition to win an anemometer for the school.  Through our work someone wondered where the windiest spot in the playground was, so we had fun making and using wind catchers to find out.

P234 used the resource to learn about wind turbines and their different parts. During co-operative group time, the children worked together to build a wind turbine using the classroom junk. Each group make a successful wind turbine with a moving part and also achieved their social goal of encouraging each other to achieve the best result.