Con Acknowledgments vi 1 Harnessing Wind Power Through Time 1 Compare Element Temperatures 6 Learn How Temperature Affects Wind 8 E 2 Ancient Wind Machines 11 Make a Wind Sock and Wind Vane 14 Measure the Wind with Admiral Beaufort 16 3 Windmills in Europe Across the Centuries 19 Mill Grain 25 Write About the Wind 26 E 4 A Windmiller s Life 29 Create Landscape Art 37 Bake Whole Wheat Rolls 38
5 All American Windmills 41 Bake Colonial Apple Cranberry Cobbler 47 Create a Windmill Paper Collage 48 Sew a Windmill Pot Holder 50 Make a Windmill Pillow Cover 52 6 Inventors and Cowboys Work the Wind 55 Prairie Cookin Corn Dodgers 61 Cook On the Trail Beans 62 Sing a Song of the American West 63 7 A New Kind of Windmill 65 Make an Electric Inventory of Your House 70 Learn What Life Was Like Before Electricity 72 Spend a Day Without Electric Power 73 8 Wind Power Today 75 Learn How Much Electricity You Use 86 Save Energy at Home 90
9 A Solution in the Wind 93 Find Out About Your Energy Sources 102 Take Environmental Action 103 10 Fulfilling the Promise 105 Global Wind Day 112 Investigate a Wind Farm 113 Where to Find Windmills 115 Resources 123 Renewable Energy and Wind Energy Groups 123 Student Environmental Groups 123 Historical Associations 124 Windmill Careers 125 Glossary 127 Picture Key to Windmills 130 Bibliography 133 Websites 133 Books 133 Author Interviews 134 Source Notes 134 Index 137
