Sizzle, Solve & Survive! - An Adventure in Sustainable 21st-Century Living for Grades 7-9
Learn to Use Sustainable Resources to Survive!
You are about to be stranded on an island, where you will need to learn to live sustainably using the resources available to you on the small 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. You will read the journal entries of islanders and build models of the same projects or conduct the same experiments right alongside them. You’ll build a model house complete with solar panels, windmill, greenhouse, and desalination system. You can build and operate an electric train, solar cooker, solar hot water tank, hygrometer, electric motor, power hoist, sail car and more! This kit includes a 96-page full color manual with 70 experiments and 20 building projects. Projects are organized into the following chapters:
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 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 Water Vampire: Desalinate water, plant watercress, produce sauerkraut and make chewing gum.
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, by, and against the wind, and examine a mixed energy vehicle.
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