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• What do these turbines do? On a wind farm there are 8 wind
turbines that supply enough energy
• How do they work?
for 9000 houses. On average, how many
• Do they spoil the landscape? houses does one wind turbine provide
energy for?
• What can you see in the distance?
Challenge: If the amount of wind
turbines on the farm were increased by
Respond 4, how many houses would be provided
How would you describe the with energy in total?
movement of wind turbines? What Discover
sounds do they make? Do they remind Fact: Wind turbines take energy
you of anything? Write a piece of from the wind and turn it into Discuss
descriptive writing using adjectives, other useful forms of energy, including There is a lot of opposition to
adverbs, similes and personification if electricity. The idea has been around for wind turbines and wind farms. Some
you can.  a long time, with windmills being used people believe that they spoil the view
in Persia as far back as 2000 BC. or destroy the landscape in some way.
Question: What other forms of energy What do you think? Are they any better
Reimagine can the wind create? How widely used or worse than electricity pylons? What
Design a wind turbine that is are wind turbines across the world and is the problem with them? What are the
sympathetic to its surroundings. how much electricity is created by them other options?
What would your design be? What on average? 
colours or patterns would you use?
Turbines Answers
How many houses does one wind turbine provide energy for? How many houses would be provided with energy in total?

9000 ÷ 8 = 1125 8 + 4 = 12

12 × 1125 = 13 500

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