The Power House
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original
For Ages 12 and up
We hope that building small models such as are provided in
Power House will inspire you to plan and construct something on a larger
scale. An Adventure in
The Power House Experiment Manual is much more than just a
set of instructions. The 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.
green essentials For Ages 10 and up Price: $89.95
70 Experiments
20 Building Projects
Price: $149.95
Sustainable Living in the 21st Century
Power House provides an engaging introduction
to regenerative energy sources while teaching basic concepts and principles
in physical science. 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.
With
the Power House 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
thoughtfully designed series of experiments was 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
storyline follows the experiments in a stepwise fashion. Easy-to-follow
activities make it fun to build models and use them for your experiments.
Sustainable
Living
More than 20 different building projects in one kit!
Experiments
Power House includes a
96-page
full color manual with 70 experiments and 20 building projects, organized
into these nine chapters:
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.
Ages 12 and up
96-page Manual
70 Experiments and 20 Building Projects
Contents:
The kit contains: foam house and plastic greenhouse parts • frame •
base • wood glue • solar panel • compass • wire • LED (light emitting
diode) • battery holder • small light bulb and holder • solar motor •
magnifying glass • propellers, iron core • ring magnet • thermometer •
test tube holder • measuring beaker • sand paper • copper foil • zinc
plate • wire mesh • many small parts such as paper clips • screws •
clips • lead sinker • washers • wing nuts • iron powder • wires • tubing
• rubber bands • yarn • wooden components • cutouts for devices • and
full-color, illustrated 96 page Experiment Manual with 70 experiments
and 20 building activities.
30 Experiments
10 Building Projects
Green Essentials Edition
To live sustainably, we must use Earth’s resources at a
rate at which they can be replenished, and thus provide for future
generations to live as we have. In this kit, you can learn about
alternative energy and sustainable living by conducting experiments
and building energy-related models. Thirty of the best experiments and
the ten most important building projects from the original Power House
kit are presented in this new Green Essentials Edition.
The ten building projects include: the power house itself, a
greenhouse, a solar cell array, a passive solar collector, a solar
oven, an air conditioner, a refrigerator, a hydrometer, a lemon
battery, and a wind power generator.
Experiment with the heating, cooling, and insulation of the house and
greenhouse. Test passive solar collection methods with a solar
collector. Assemble a solar power array to explore active solar power
with photovoltaics. Build a model refrigerator and air conditioner to
learn about heat transfer. Experiment with a lemon battery to learn
about power storage. Set up a wind turbine to generate electricity
from the wind.
As you perform the experiments, you will read the diary entries of a
group of young explorers who are learning to live a sustainable
existence on an island. To survive, they must implement real-world
versions of the projects you are doing in the kit. Ages 10 and up.
Power
House Comparison Chart
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 Power House: Green Essentials |
 Power House Full Version |
| Experiment Manual | ||
| English 96 Pages |  |
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| English/ Spanish 96 Pages |
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| Parts Included | 24 | 50 |
| Building Projects | 10 | 20 |
| Power House | |
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| Sun Collector | |
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| Solar Oven parts included | |
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| Solar Oven built from plans | |
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| Rice Cooker | |
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| Sun baked bread | |
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| Thumbtack Scale | |
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| Air Conditioner | |
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| Hygrometer | |
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| Oil Press | |
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| Oil Lamp | |
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| Sun Power Station | |
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| Light Telephone | |
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| Lemon Battery | |
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| Current Indicator | |
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| Electric Motor | |
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| Transfer Switch | |
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| Electric Crane | |
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| Electric Rail Car | |
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| Wind Power Plant | |
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| Sail Car | |
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| Experiments | 38 | 51 |
| Heat with the sun | |
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| Greenhouse/lamplite | |
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| Exp. with windows closed | |
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| Exp. with windows open | |
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| Exp. with roof covered | |
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| Exp. with greenhouse covered | |
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| Shade temp | |
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| Heating water in greenhouse | |
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| Water as coolant | |
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| Collector temp empty | |
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| Collector temp full | |
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| Focal length of magnifying glass | |
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| Focal point determine with thermometer | |
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| Magnifying glass oven | |
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| Refracted light | |
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| Steam from a thimble | |
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| Heat focal point in solar oven | |
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| Desalinate water | |
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| Plant watercress | |
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| Preserve watercress | |
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| Making sauerkraut | |
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| Dry an apple | |
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| Propel air | |
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| Cool down the house | |
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| Humidity and density of air | |
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| Test the refrigerator | |
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| Plants & Light | |
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| Wandering Beans | |
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| Water is life | |
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| Leafy green oxygen factories | |
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| Plants & Oxygen | |
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| Plants & Energy | |
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| Pressing Oil | |
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| Press & Measure Oil | |
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| Sunflower Oil as preservative | |
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| Solar cells & light | |
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| Power from lemons (4 exps) | |
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| Galvanize a Nail | |
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| Splitting Water | |
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| The Magnetic Field | |
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| Find Magnetic Poles | |
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| Test the current indicator | |
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| "Diversion" experiment | |
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| Generate Electricity with motor | |
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| Long lever/Short lever | |
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| Test the Electric Car | |
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| Electric Car/ Battery/ Solar powered | |
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| Wind & Lift experiments | |
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| Test run the Sail Car | |
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| Sailing against the wind | |
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| Power from Wind | |
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