Investigate Renewable Energy with KidWind
Hands-On Tools for Wind Energy Exploration
How is energy generated in your community? How can renewable sources like wind and solar reshape our future? With KidWind and Vernier technology, students can investigate these questions and more through engaging activities that connect science to real-world challenges.
Equip your classroom with the tools to design and test wind turbine blades, measure wind speed, analyze how topography impacts wind flow, and compare renewable energy to traditional sources like coal and oil. These tools build critical-thinking and data-analysis skills while integrating concepts from biology, environmental science, physics, and engineering.
Plus, inspire learning beyond the classroom with KidWind Challenges—dynamic competitions where students design and test wind turbines to generate maximum power.
College and High School
Create opportunities for your high school and college students to explore more complex concepts in energy and engineering design, from aerodynamics to power output analysis, as they explore real-world renewable energy solutions.
Middle School
Enhance your STEM curriculum with innovative technology to help students visualize data, build critical-thinking skills, and apply their understanding of electricity, force, dynamics, and climate science to the world around them.
Elementary School
Introduce science and technology in your classroom with hands-on activities that engage elementary students in exploring pushes and pulls, wind and weather, and electricity in fun, meaningful ways.
How Does Energy Production Impact Your Community?
Help your students make important connections between renewable energy, engineering design, and environmental and community impact while exploring hands-on wind turbine design, testing, and energy output optimization.
Simplify Your Classroom with Our KidWind Packages
College and High School
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KidWind Advanced Wind Experiment Kit
Starts at $174.00
Middle School
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Wind Energy Explorations Go Direct® Package
Starts at $252.00
Elementary School
KidWind Wind Turbine Basics for All Levels
Not sure how to get started with blade design? This video walks you through the essentials of using cardboard blades with any KidWind Wind Turbine kit and covers best practices for successful experimentation and data collection to help you and your students get the most out of your projects.
KidWind Challenges
Take learning beyond the classroom with KidWind Challenges—exciting competitions where students design and test wind turbines to generate maximum power. Engaging over 3,000 students annually, these challenges inspire creativity, teamwork, and a deeper understanding of renewable energy.
Winner of the 2024 Tech & Learning Awards of Excellence
Our Basic and Advanced KidWind Wind Experiment Kits were awarded Tech & Learning Awards of Excellence: Best of 2024. These awards recognize outstanding educational technology that exceptionally supports teachers and students in higher, secondary, and primary education.
Software for Renewable Energy
Collect, Graph, and Analyze Data in Real Time
Help students form critical connections between abstract scientific ideas and the real world. With the Vernier Graphical Analysis® app, students can visualize and interact with voltage, current, power, and energy output from renewable energy experiments.
Engage Your Community with Outreach Programs
KidWind experiment kits can be used in outreach programs like that at Roger Williams University, where an interdisciplinary community engagement project pairs engineering majors with education majors to teach local fourth graders about wind energy.
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We are scientists, educators, and your team.
As you implement data-collection technology into your teaching, we’re here to support you! Looking to learn more about our products or have questions about ordering? Reach out to our team at kidwind@vernier.com.
Are you a district or school administrator?
If you are considering an adoption or seeking training options, we are here to support you every step of the way. Contact our solutions team at k12outreach@vernier.com.