Spirit Lake Community Schools

http://www.energy.ca.gov/education/index.html - The California Energy Commission's home page "ENERGY QUEST" - filled with educational information, especially for elementary. Defines energy and contains twelve chapters on forms of energy, including geothermal, fossil fuels, hydro power, nuclear, solar and wind energy. Also looks at turbines and generators, at what electricity is, how energy is sent to users, and how we can decrease the energy we use.

http://www.nrel.gov/wind/curturbs.html - Nation Wind Technology Center. Excellent source of wind data, maps, turbines, etc.

http://place.scholastic.com/MAGICSCHOOLBUS/games/teacher/energy/ - The Magic School Bus wind energy page - directions to make a pinwheel.

http://www.awea.org/ - The American Wind Energy Association home page. A political approach also including statistics, recent news and maps

http://www.eurec.be/ - The European Association of Renewable Energy Research. This organization has many references to research in the field of wind and other renewable energy sources.

http://www.homepower.com/hp/ - A site dedicated to home power enthusiasts. Many references to home built energy resources.

http://www.nationalwind.org/ - The National Wind Coordinating Committee. The government group that coordinates wind energy initiatives and research.

http://www.sandia.gov/Renewable_Energy/wind_energy/homepage.html - Wind Energy, Technology and Research.

http://www.igc.org/energy/wind.html - Provides a list of several web sites that you can link onto for further information.

http://www.eren.doe.gov/cities-counties/ - Series of fact sheets developed for the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.

http://www.nrel.gov/wind/database.html - Knowing where a high wind resource may exist is valuable. This site by NREL identifies and gathers data for

http://www.sln.fi.edu//tfi/units/energy/video.html - A Wind video gallery with a variety of wind videos.

http://www.smm.org/sln/vollis/ - From Windmills to Whirligigs is a unique science and art site showing a connection to wind.

http://www.igc.org/energy/wind.html - Wind Energy Resources: Grade Level(s): IMHA. List of hot links to wind energy sites. This site is hosted by IGC (the United States member of the Association for Progressive Communications). This Association is a global partnership of computer networks that link activists around the world. Somewhat political in nature, this site is attractive visually and does allow the user the ability to determine and email his/her congressperson about wind energy.

http://www.awea.org/ - American Wind Energy Association (AWEA): Grade Level(s): IMHA. List of hot links to wind energy sites. The AWEA works to further the development of wind energy as a reliable energy alternative. Some resources listed at this site are for purchase. This site also offers a list serve opportunity for users who are interested in communicating about wind energy.

http://www.bwea.com/contents.html - British Wind Energy Association: Grade Level(s): MHA. There are no graphics at this site, but it offers a list of links to internationally based wind energy associations. This is also a host site for other renewable energy associations and offers a global perspective to users who are researching wind energy.

http://www.nrel.gov/wind/potential.html - National Wind Technology Center: Grade Level(s): HA. Although the information at this site is dated 1993, this site has a graphical illustration of a wind energy resource atlas of the United States. There is too much information for one web page but the colorful maps make the scrolling worth it.

http://www.light-power.org/Windpics.htm = Wind Power Pilot Program from the City of Fort Collins (CO): Grade Level(s): MHA. This site is valuable for its photo sequence, which shows a wind turbine assembly. A wind power monthly news magazine (e-zine) is available at this site.

http://www.ulb.ac.be/ceese/meta/cds.html - Best Environmental Directories: Grade Level(s): MHA. This site features links to international sites on energy efficiency, renewable energy, and sustainable living-- more than just wind energy.

http://www.wind-power.com/ - Information on how residential scale alternate energy systems work and how these systems can be used to live "off the grid", or to save on your utility power bills.

http://www.eru.rl.ac.uk/ - This site includes information from the Energy Research Unit at RAL on wind energy, wind turbines, energy and society, the wind, and using renewable energy.

http://www.ffa.se/windenergy/windenergy.html - Information on the Swedish wind energy research program. It contains excellent photos of flow visualization in a wind turbine.

http://www.infinitepower.com/orgs.html Organizations that deal with renewable energy sources.

http://www.aep.com/environment/solar/index.html - Excellent solar energy site, place for questions, school solar sites, graphs and charts.

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/index.html - National Hurricane Center - Tropical prediction center.

http://www.silo.lib.ia.us/nwrl/links.html - Maintained by the State of Iowa Northwest Regional Library, one of the best reference desks on the Internet, maintained well and links to any research tool found in a library.

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