Renewable Energy Systems Kit

Engage your student in hands-on engineering challenges while exploring renewable energy sources like geothermal, wind, and solar. Each activity emphasizes the engineering design process through designing, testing, and improving working models of real-world energy systems.

With this kit, students will investigate electricity, energy transfer, circuits, and how natural resources can be harnessed to power our world. They will deepen their understanding of sustainability, problem-solving, and innovation in energy engineering.

This Launch-level kit includes over nine hours of guided learning and comes with a full-color Student Workbook and Teacher Guide. Activities focus on designing, testing, and evaluating renewable energy technologies.

Hands-on activities include:

• Generating electricity with a hand-crank generator

• Building and testing thermoelectric generators for geothermal energy

• Designing and optimizing wind turbines

• Harnessing solar energy with photovoltaic cells

• Creating a model sustainable home using multiple renewable technologies

Students will explore questions like:

• How is renewable energy captured and converted into usable electricity?

• What are the advantages and challenges of different renewable energy sources?

• How can engineering design improve energy systems for the future?

Perfect for grades 9—12, the Renewable Energy Systems kit is part of the Science Unlocked Launch series by Home Science Tools—designed to spark understanding and confidence in STEM.

• 3 Alligator Clip Leads, pack
• 2 Cardstock
• 1 Candle
• 3 Cardboard Sheet
• 2 DC Motor, small
• 1 DC Motor, large
• 1 Digital Multimeter
• 1 Double-Sided Foam Strip
• 1 Generator, Hand-crank
• 1 Glue Stick
• 5 LED
• 1 Masking Tape
• 1 Matches
• 1 Nylon Conductive Tape
• 3 Propeller
• 1 PVC Pipe
• 1 PVC Tee Fitting Reducer
• 1 Resistor, 5 pack
• 1 Solar Cell, 0.5 volt
• 2 Solar Cell, 1.5 volt
• 1 Thermoelectric Generator (Peltier Device)
• 1 Wood base

• NGSS science standards alignment

  • HS-ETS1-1: Analyze a major global challenge to specify qualitative and quantitative criteria and constraints for solutions that account for societal needs and wants. 

  • HS-ETS1-2: Design a solution to a complex real-world problem by breaking it down into smaller, more manageable problems that can be solved through engineering. 

  • HS-ETS1-3: Evaluate a solution to a complex real-world problem based on prioritized criteria and trade-offs that account for a range of constraints, including cost, safety, reliability, and aesthetics, as well as possible social, cultural, and environmental impacts.