Can you design a better windmill?
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7rcs

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Introduction - what were you investigating?
a) windmills
b) wind mills
c) We were investigating how we can power an ipod with mini windmills
d) How we could power an iPod


Prediction - will your design produce enough energy to charge an iPod for an hour in the 10 minutes you have?
a) No
b) probably not!


Conclusion
- What did you discover?
a) That can work
b) We can't power a ipod for an hour
c) We discovered that the smaller and less heavy spin the most
d) That our windmill was the best design

Evaluation - How would you improve your windmill design if you were doing this experiment again?
a) Make it lighter
b) make it a bit lighter!
c) We don't need too we won anyway
d) We would make it smaller


What would you like to ask a power expert about this experiment?
a) Does it really work?
b) Nothing
c) What made our design the best?
d) What made our design win?
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6ckr

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From group's reports:
Introduction
- what were you investigating?

a)
b) How much energy you can make using a miniature windmill model

Prediction - will your design produce enough energy to charge an iPod for an hour in the 10 minutes you have?

a)
b) No because we didn't get to finish and it was weak


Conclusion - What did you discover?

a)
b) That you have to work hard to get a good result



Evaluation - How would you improve your windmill design if you were doing this experiment again?

a)
b) Don't work your friends and you will inprove

What would you like to ask a power expert about this experiment?

a)
b) That they did a good job.

5rjg

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Introduction - what were you investigating?
a) How to make a wind powered generator
b) How much power we could make using a windmill we made

Prediction - will your design produce enough energy to charge an iPod for an hour in the 10 minutes you have?
a) Yes

Conclusion - What did you discover?
a) That the smaller the turbine the more energy
b) Our fan made 0.88 volts and 8.4 mA

Evaluation - How would you improve your windmill design if you were doing this experiment again?
a) To make it smaller
b) Made it smaller


What would you like to ask a power expert about this experiment?
a) What other things can be charged by wind?
b) What shape would the perfect windmill be?

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4gem

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Introduction - what were you investigating?
a) How to make a fan that produces enough energy to charge a ipod
b) Which make fan makes the highest volts and milliamp
c) Which home made fan can produce the most energy
d) Which designs materials etc. could produce a wind turbine that produces the highest wattage

Prediction - will your design produce enough energy to charge an iPod for an hour in the 10 minutes you have?
a) No because the shape was bad
b) no
c) No
d) Probably not - our fan produced very little miliampsand voltage as a result this produced very little wattage


Conclusion - What did you discover?
a) Paper plate work well : )
b) Make the fan simple and easy
c) That you need a small fan for the most power
d) It is very difficult to make a wind turbine capable of producing enough energy out of paper. Industrial wind turbines are much more capable


Evaluation - How would you improve your windmill design if you were doing this experiment again?
a) Use a paper plate
b) Make it more simple
c) make it smaller
d) Probably support the fan more and give it a larger surface area


What would you like to ask a power expert about this experiment?
a) nothing
b) an easer whay to do it
c) how to make ours the best
d) No- I'm not amazingly interested in this field and I really wouldn't want to

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3cbl

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Taken from group's reports:
Introduction
- what were you investigating?
a) How wind be turned into power
b) can our wind terbines can provide enough to power a ipod
c) Can our wind terbines can produce enough energy to charge an ipod for an hou
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Prediction - will your design produce enough energy to charge an iPod for an hour in the 10 minutes you have?
a) Yes
b) No because our V was 0.0 and our mA was 0.0 because it didn't move
c) No because our V was 0.0 and our mA was 0.0 because it didn't move


Conclusion - What did you discover?
a) We couldn't couldn't create enough energy to power anything
b) The closer the fan the faster it is
c) The closer the fan the faster it is


Evaluation - How would you improve your windmill design if you were doing this experiment again?
a) We would add more objects for more wind resistance
b) More blades to make more our resistance
c) More blades on it to make more our resistance


What would you like to ask a power expert about this experiment?
a) why ours wouldn't move?!

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2kdj

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Introduction - what were you investigating?
a) We were investigating how to conduct electrisity from wind turbines, and which one could produce the most
b) we were investigating how to make electricity from wind turbine that we made from paper, sticks and cardboard to see which windmills made the most volts or milliampas
c) we were investigating to see how much electricity our windmill can use

Prediction - will your design produce enough energy to charge an iPod for an hour in the 10 minutes you have?
a) No I don't think it will be fully charged within 10 minutes. I think if we had a little longer then it possibly would be charged.
b) No. I don't think that it will power it for a hour in ten minutes it would need more time.

Conclusion - What did you discover?
a) That wind turbines produce a lot more energy than I thorght
b) Wind turbines makes lots of energy

Evaluation - How would you improve your windmill design if you were doing this experiment again?
a) I would make it a bit bigger
b) I would make it smaller

What would you like to ask a power expert about this experiment?

1hss

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Introduction - what were you investigating?
Windmills

Prediction - will your design produce enough energy to charge an iPod for an hour in the 10 minutes you have?
No I dont think it will because we diddont have time to finish it

Conclusion - What did you discover?
Our windmill diddont work

Evaluation - How would you improve your windmill design if you were doing this experiment again?
Maybe just focus on the whole thing not just little details

What would you like to ask a power expert about this experiment?
How do you make a wind meal that looks nice and works in the time you are given?

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