Lesson Plans and Teaching Resources for The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

Use The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer to strengthen your students' comprehension skills, build their vocabulary, and help them understand how words work.

Bryan Mealer and William Kamkwamba together tell the inspiring story of William's quest to bring water and electricity to his drought-ridden village in Malawi, Africa. Share this inspiring story with your students and teach them to comprehend biographies as they work to make connections to the text, make inferences about William's life, and identify the author's purpose for writing this story.

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Title: The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
Author: William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer
Genre: Biography, Nonfiction
Themes: Perseverance, STEAM / STEM, Family, Growth Mindset
ISBN: 9781101637425
Publisher's Summary:
When a terrible drought struck William Kamkwamba's tiny village in Malawi, his family lost all of the season's crops, leaving them with nothing to eat and nothing to sell. William began to explore science books in his village library, looking for a solution. There, he came up with the idea that would change his family's life forever: he could build a windmill. Made out of scrap metal and old bicycle parts, William's windmill brought electricity to his home and helped his family pump the water they needed to farm the land.
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