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Thames and Kosmos Power House - Green Essentials Edition

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Thames and Kosmos Power House - Green Essentials Edition
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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.

Details:
DetailValue
Model626114
MPN626114
Height16.5 inches
Width6.4 inches
Weight3.1 pounds
Release Date2009-03-15
Batteries Included0
BrandThames & Kosmos
EAN0857853001827
Length13 inches
LabelThames & Kosmos
List Price$89.95
ManufacturerThames & Kosmos
Package Quantity1
PublisherThames & Kosmos
StudioThames & Kosmos
UPC857853001827
Manufacturer Maximum Age600
Manufacturer Minimum Age120
Batteries2
BindingToy
Product GroupToy
Product Type NameTOYS_AND_GAMES
TitleThames and Kosmos Power House - Green Essentials Edition
FeatureGreat science project
Amazon Maximum Age1188
Amazon Minimum Age120
Hazardous Material TypeUnknown
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Power House provides an introduction for kids and /or adults to sustainable energy sources and teaches basic concepts and principles in physical science. Using the kit will teach you about how to use heat and light energy from the sun, wind power, and electrochemical and plant energy.
 

The Power House kit allows you to build a model house complete with solar panels, windmill, greenhouse, and desalination system. The experiments were developed by physicist Uwe Wandrey so they’re actual working projects and experiments.
 


There are plenty of easy-to-follow activities included in a 96-page full color manual that highlights 70 experiments and 20 building projects, organized into the following nine chapters:
 

  1. The Heat Trap: Construct and experiment with a greenhouse.
  2. The Sun Collector: Collect the sun’s rays to heat water.
  3. The Sun Burners: Make a solar cooker while learning about the principles of light before you cook rice and bake bread.
  4. The Water Vampire: Desalinate water, plant watercress, produce sauerkraut and make chewing gum.
  5. The Heat Absorbers: Learn how heat of evaporation provides cooling, conduct experiments about air humidity, build a hygrometer and test a refrigerator.
  6. Power Plants: Grow beans, make a potted plant feed a candle, harvest sunflower energy, build an oil press, and assemble an oil lamp.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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 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.

 

 

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