The Power of the Wind Training Guide
The Power of the Wind Training Guide is a series of training activities to be conducted with youth development facilitators to increase their knowledge and skills to effectively lead The Power of the Wind curriculum. It provides a wealth of training experiences and resources to engage youth development professionals (e.g. 4-H agents/educators) in building the capacity of volunteers in using The Power of the Wind Youth and Facilitator Guides.
Training Guide forThe Power of the Wind
The training is designed to take place over 10-12 hours during two days to provide extensive time for experiencing curriculum activities, practice and reflection. This combination provides an opportunity to deepen participants’ learning of the content and become familiar with The Power of the Wind curriculum.
Activities
Though they were designed and written to be done over two days, each activity may be used to build the knowledge and skills of participants. Click on the activity below and download to determine how and where it might be used.
Training Modules
Five specific modules have been designed to provide alternatives to the two-day format for those who do not have sufficient time or need to strengthen one aspect of their facilitators' knowledge and skills. There are three 90 minute designs, one three hour and one full day.
Each is hands on, experiential and fully participatory. What they do not provide, that is critical to learning how to implement, is the opportunity to practice actually leading activities. This should be considered as training is being designed.
- Introduction - 90 minutes
This training provides an opportunity to experience one of the activities out of The Power of the Wind and become more familiar with how the curriculum is organized to best prepare facilitators to pick it up and use it.
- Engineering Design Process - 90 minute
This training provides a deeper understanding of one a key component of The Power of the Wind – the Engineering Design Process. By experiencing two different activities from the curriculum and discussing how the engineering design process is used, participants become better prepared to work with youth using the process.
- Science Process Skills - 90 minute
This training is on the science process skills and their relation to The Power of the Wind curriculum. Each activity in the curriculum identifies specific 4-H SET Abilities. By participating in this training, 4-H facilitators will be able to better understand the 30 SET Abilities in terms of the science process skills, and to analyze The Power of the Wind activities for opportunities for using and development learners' science process skills.
- Introduction - 3 hours
This training provides participants opportunities to learn more about how the guide is organized, experience two curriculum activities and become familiar with the engineering design process and to think through how they will be implementing the curriculum and the support and resources they will need.
- The Power of the Wind - One day training
This training provides participants time to experience three different activities out of the guide; become familiar with how the guide is organized; focus on both the 4-H SET Checklist, experiential learning process and the engineering design process as components of effectively leading the curriculum and time to work on an action plan.
Support for the Training Guide for The Power of the Wind was provided by the 3M Foundation. 3M Foundation invests in tomorrow's leaders to support the environment, energy solutions, and engineering.
Resources in this collection have been reviewed and recommended by the National 4-H Professional Development jury process.