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Geography programme for students aged 11 to 18 years

Wind Energy

These resources include colour information cards about eight renewable energy sources:

  • Bio-energy
  • Geothermal energy
  • Hydroelectric energy
  • Hydrogen fuel cells
  • Solar energy
  • Tidal energy
  • Wave energy
  • Wind energy

The activity cards and teachers’ notes will help you to:

  • Understand how each technology works
  • Understand why renewable energy is so important for the UK
  • Deliver activities on managing resources, rivers and coasts, weather and climate, and map work.

Click each link to download the PDFs

Teachers’ notes [PDF 62KB]
Introductory sheet [PDF 29KB]
Activity sheets [PDF 1625KB]
Information cards for 11 to 14s [PDF 2658KB]
Information cards for 14 to 18s [PDF 2068KB]
Renewable Energy poster [PDF 896KB]

When printing these materials, please note that they are all designed to be printed at A4, with the exception of the posters. These should be printed as large as your printer allows.