Renewables
Section 2 - Hydropower


Lesson Objectives

To the teacher: Click on the link next to the title of each lesson for a list of TEKS by grade and subject matter.

Water Wheel PDF
The student will:

  • create a water wheel to demonstrate the conversion of potential energy to kinetic energy
  • apply knowledge of the production of electricity through hydropower to situations in the past, present, and future

Waves and Whistles PDF
The student will:

  • create an oscillating water column to demonstrate the energy transformations that take place in converting wave motion and force into useful work
  • develop a solution for obtaining one-way rotation of a pneumatic turbine in a reversing airflow