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The Power House

 


 

The Power House

original

For Ages 12 and up
70 Experiments
20 Building Projects


Price: $149.95
 

 SORRY, TEMPORARILY SOLD OUT. PLEASE SEE GREEN ESSENTIALS BELOW.



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.

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 Sustainable Living

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.



More than 20 different building projects in one kit!
Power House
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


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.
 

 


 

 

The Power House

green essentials

For Ages 10 and up
30 Experiments
10 Building Projects

Price: $89.95

 





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.




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Power House: Green Essentials

Power House Full Version
Experiment Manual    
English 96 Pages  
English/ Spanish 96 Pages
 
 
     
Parts Included 24 50
     
Building Projects 10 20
Power House
Sun Collector
Solar Oven parts included  
Solar Oven built from plans  
Rice Cooker
Sun baked bread  
Thumbtack Scale
Air Conditioner
Hygrometer
Oil Press  
Oil Lamp  
Sun Power Station
Light Telephone  
Lemon Battery
Current Indicator  
Electric Motor  
Transfer Switch  
Electric Crane  
Electric Rail Car  
Wind Power Plant
Sail Car  
     
Experiments 38 51
Heat with the sun
Greenhouse/lamplite
Exp. with windows closed
Exp. with windows open
Exp. with roof covered
Exp. with greenhouse covered
     
Shade temp
Heating water in greenhouse
Water as coolant
Collector temp empty
Collector temp full
     
Focal length of magnifying glass
Focal point determine with thermometer
Magnifying glass oven
Refracted light
Steam from a thimble
Heat focal point in solar oven
     
Desalinate water
Plant watercress  
Preserve watercress  
Making sauerkraut  
Dry an apple  
     
Propel air
Cool down the house
Humidity and density of air
Test the refrigerator
     
Plants & Light  
Wandering Beans  
Water is life  
Leafy green oxygen factories  
Plants & Oxygen  
Plants & Energy  
Pressing Oil  
Press & Measure Oil  
Sunflower Oil as preservative  
     
Solar cells & light
Power from lemons (4 exps)
Galvanize a Nail
Splitting Water
The Magnetic Field  
Find Magnetic Poles  
Test the current indicator  
"Diversion" experiment  
     
Generate Electricity with motor  
Long lever/Short lever  
Test the Electric Car  
Electric Car/ Battery/ Solar powered  
Wind & Lift experiments
Test run the Sail Car  
Sailing against the wind  
Power from Wind
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