The Wind Turbine Junkyard is a kit that was inspired by the book The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind where the main character of the book builds a wind turbine from parts he finds in a junkyard.  The kit is simply a bin of PVC parts and students use these parts to assemble a PVC wind turbine – enough for 4 turbines.  Follow-up acitivities to this kit include the KidWind Clip Hub, the Blade Characteristic Investigation Stations, and the Wind Turbine Blade Design Challenge.
 
This kit includes:
~6” PVC pipes
~2” PVC pipes
~24” PVC pipes
PVC 90° elbows (with and without a hole drilled in it)
PVC T-joints
Generators
 
*See video with assembly instructions and tips at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjsGrWioLlk 
 
Worksheets:
Build a PVC Turbine Instructions
Engineer's Notebook