Awesome Power House Experiments Science Kit!

With the Power House Experiments Science kit you can build a model house complete with solar panels, windmill, greenhouse, and desalination system. You can build and operate an electric train, windmill, solar cooker, solar hot water tank, hygrometer, electric motor, power hoist, sail car, and more! Plant watercress, prepare sauerkraut, and make chewing gum. Learn how plants convert sunlight into energy for your body and your engines.

The kit focuses on the heat and light energy from the sun, the energy from the wind, as well as with electrochemical and plant energy. You will learn how to transform and use these forms of energy.

The physicist, Uwe Wandrey, developed the thoughtfully designed series of experiments. 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 storyline follows the experiments in a stepwise fashion. Easy-to-follow activities make it fun to build models and use them for your experiments.

The Power House Experiments Science Kit 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.

Experiments

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 Sun Collector: Collect the sun’s rays to heat water.

The Heat Trap: Construct and experiment with a greenhouse.

The Water Vampire: Desalinate water, plant watercress, produce sauerkraut and make chewing gum.

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.

The Heat Absorbers: Learn how heat of evaporation provides cooling, conduct experiments about air humidity, build a hygrometer and test a refrigerator.

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.

The Sun Burners: Make a solar cooker while learning about the principles of light before you cook rice and bake bread.

Power Plants: Grow beans, make a potted plant feed a candle, harvest sunflower energy, build an oil press, and assemble an oil lamp.

Seal of Approval Winner Spring As if they had an advanced copy of the president's State of the Union address, here is a remarkable science project kit that explores the possibilities that alternative energy sources can have on the future of automobile travel. Brilliantly conceived and wonderfully presented, this higher end science project will whet the appetite of any budding scientist or environmentally aware student. The manual is clear and exceptionally informative, laying a groundwork for the experiments. Your child will be proud of the results and anxious to show them off.