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Power House
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Item: TK025
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Step Into the Home of the Future!

Imagine yourself on an island where you:

  • Build and Energize a Model House
  • Tap the Power of the Sun & Wind
  • Use Energy Stored in Plants
  • Build and Operate 20 Devices, including: Wind Power, Power Hoist, Desalination System, Current Indicator, Solar Cells, Cooling System, Solar Oven, Greenhouse, Electric Motor, Solar Train, Compass, Sail Car

    A thoughtfully designed series of experiments developed by physicist Uwe Wandrey. Professor Wandrey creatively integrates physical science and technology lessons with the adventure of building a home and living on a remote island. To survive, you must learn how to harness the power of the sun and the wind as well as tap the energy of other physical forces.

    The Power House Experiment Manual is organized around the story of a group of island dwellers who must learn to live sustainably using the resources available to them on their small island. As you read their journal entries and learn of their projects and experiments, you build models of the same projects and conduct the same experiments alongside them.

    Contents Include:

  • The Heat Trap: Construct and experiment with a greenhouse
  • The Sun Collector: Collect the sun's rays to heat water
  • The Sun Burners: Make a solar cooker while learning about the principles of light before you cook rice and bake bread
  • The Water Vampire: Desalinate water, plant watercress, produce sauerkraut and make chewing gum
  • The Heat Absorbers: Learn how heat of evaporation provides cooling, conduct experiments about air humidity, build a hygrometer and test a refrigerator
  • Power Plants: Grow beans, make a potted plant feed a candle, harvest sunflower energy, build an oil press, and assemble an oil lamp
  • The Energy Converters: Extract electric current from sunlight and metals in acid, build a light telephone, galvanize a nail and split water into hydrogen and oxygen
  • The Forces of Magnetism: Generate electric current with magnetic fields. Build a current indicator, electric and solar motors, a transfer switch, and a crane. Lift pencils with the sun and learn about levers. Build an electric car
  • Wings in the Wind: Build a sail car and learn how wings and sails transform energy. Learn to sail with the wind, by the wind, and against the wind and examine a mixed energy vehicle

    More than 20 different building projects in one kit!
  • Powerhouse
  • Wind-powered Generator
  • Solar Collector
  • Solar Power Station
  • Greenhouse
  • Current Indicator
  • Sail Car
  • Hygrometer
  • Refrigerator
  • Electric Motor
  • Electric Crane
  • Electric Train
  • Oil Lamp
  • Light Telescope
  • Rice Cooker
  • Solar Oven
  • Oil Press
  • Thumbtack Scale
  • Lemon Battery
  • Electric Switch

  • Exciting Experiments in Future Technics
  • Research and Experiment with 21st Century Power Technologies
  • Engaging Activities Intrigue Both Children & Adults
  • 70 Mind Opening Experiments
  • 20 Fabulous Building Projects
  • Ages 12+





      UPC 4002051626112
      Manufacturer SKU 626112
      Manufactured In Germany
      Fat Brain Toys Sales Ranking #656
      Recommended Age 12 and up



    Power House has been reviewed 3 times with an average rating of 4.33.

    A Real Powerhouse!
    Posted 3/19/2008 by Carmel E.

    Rating:

    I purchased the Power House as a birthday present for my son's 13th birthday (it's a difficult age to know what to buy!) He spent hours with it the first weekend after his birthday, and has barely gotten started! I haven't seen a toy that would provide so many continuous hours of intrigue and entertainment in a long time! He loves it, and we are both looking forward to learning more about alternative energies.

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    Power house
    Posted 8/9/2006 by Lie Narukawa Gitzel

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    It is a very interesting product and allows my children (ages 11 and 14) to have fun with the experiments in the book. They liked to extract oil and make air-conditioning. We think that as parents we need to make our children aware of alternative energy (renewable) and try to teach them about it. That is why we ordered the product.

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