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Enviro Battery Educational Kit By Green Science

Anita (EnviroGadget Writer) — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 09:00:28 +0000

The Enviro Battery Kit contains all you need to create many different environmentally friendly batteries and other such eco-friendly items. The kit can help you turn many different household items into batteries allowing you to power items like a LED bulb or watch while explaining the science behind why these experiments work.

The Enviro Battery Educational Kit made by Green Science can be used as an educational tool to help teach children about environmentally friendly power sources, and the science behind creating electricity from chemical reactions. The kit includes the parts and full detailed instructions to allow you to create batteries from ordinary household items like fruit juices, vegetables, coins, and utensils. The kit also includes the parts to allow you to light an LED bulb, power a watch, and activate a music chip.

The Enviro Battery Kit includes 4 plates of both copper and zinc and connection wires for these, 2 specially designed bottle screw caps, a tower with a LED bulb on top, a sound chip, a LCD watch moment with protective cover and many other parts to help you create the experiments in the instructions. This educational kit is not suitable for children that are 3 or under due to the small parts, the kit is aimed for children aged 8 and up, though adult supervision is recommended.

The Enviro Battery Educational Kit is just $13.79 with free shipping.

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Solar Butterfly Kit – Educational Solar Toy

Anita (EnviroGadget Writer) — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 09:00:32 +0000

The Solar Butterfly Kit is a craft set that allows you to paint and piece together a bright butterfly that will flap its wings in the sunlight.

The Solar Butterfly Kit creates a bright, colourful butterfly to brighten up any window. The solar panel connected to the butterfly causes the wings to flutter in the sunlight. Due to the materials and paints used the sunlight shining through the butterfly wings will also cause a projection of the butterfly to appear on a wall opposite the window.

The Solar Butterfly Kit contains everything you need to construct the butterfly, it includes paints and a brush to let you paint the butterfly any way you wish. The instructions inform you how to clip the different parts together once the wings have been painted and how to connect them to the solar panel. When positioning the butterfly some consideration needs to be given to make sure that it is on a window that receives sunlight. This beautiful craft kit provides entertainment for children, allowing them to decorate the butterfly, construct the model and see solar power in action fluttering the wings.

The Solar Butterfly Kit costs only £11.69 with free delivery.

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Generator Racing – Hand-Powered Car Racing Toy

Anita (EnviroGadget Writer) — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 09:00:52 +0000

The Hand-Powered Generator Car Racing Toy allows you to race two cars around a track without needing either battery or mains power. The cars draw power from the electricity you provide from winding the handles on the hand generators.

The Generator Racing game allows you to play on a track with two slot cars, the track has the look and feel of a classic mains/battery powered track. Unlike the car racing tracks of old, operating the cars takes more involvement than holding down one button. The cars race around the track on electricity generated by the controllers. Each controller has a crank/wind up handle, this needs to be turned rapidly, the kinetic energy from turning the handle is converted by a generator within the controller into electricity.

This feature not only allows you to play a racing car game without any worries over battery power or over the drain on mains electricity but also adds an extra level of difficulty to racing. As the turning of the handle powers the car, the speed of turning it impacts on the speed of the car, slower turns are needed for the car to corner without rushing straight off the track. The game comes with 2 cars and 2 generator controllers, the track is supplied in 30 pieces that allow a variety of track layouts to be constructed.

The Hand-Powered Generator Car Racing Toy is just £39.95 plus £3.95 delivery.

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Educational Solar Powered FM Radio Kit

Anita (EnviroGadget Writer) — Thu, 06 May 2010 09:00:22 +0000

The Solar Powered FM Radio Kit allows you to teach children about the eco-friendly energy source of solar power in a fun and engaging manner. The kit creates a fully functioning FM radio that has been designed to be bright and appealing to children.

The Solar Powered FM Radio Kit comes in kit form, in 16 different parts. It includes detailed instructions to help construct the radio, learning as you go about how it all interlinks and about how solar power works. Once constructed the radio just needs light to work. The solar panel will need placing somewhere with bright sunlight, though artificial light may also work it if needed.

The radio kit helps to teach children through play, by being supplied in kit form it helps them to get involved with the radio which helps to encourage them to learn about it and increase their interest. Once made the radio can be used as a normal radio, either by placing it somewhere in bright daylight to be powered continually in an eco friendly manner to help reinforce the lesson of the benefits of renewable energy or it can be powered by two AA batteries. This allows it to be a functioning radio even at night.

The Solar Powered FM Radio Kit costs just £14.95.

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Solar Powered Spinning Sunflower

Anita (EnviroGadget Writer) — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 10:00:45 +0000

This solar powered Spinning Sunflower is meant for use as an amusing addition to any garden or conservatory.

The solar powered Spinning Sunflower does exactly what it states, when sunlight hits the solar panel (located on the back of the sunflower head) the electrical energy provided is used to cause the sunflower to spin. The Spinning Sunflower should then provide amusement in your garden for all those who find such a thing entertaining (for example children or the occasional puzzled bird).

The Spinning Sunflower measures 55 cm high (21.65 in), and the flower head has a diameter of 22 cm (8.66 in). The Sunflower is fully weatherproof to help it last outdoors but can also be used indoors in suitably lit areas such as a conservatory.

The Spinning Sunflower costs just £24.99 plus delivery, and is sure to keep the kids amused for at least a little while!

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Horizon Hydrogen Powered Electric Hydro-Car

Dan (EnviroGadget Writer) — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 09:00:31 +0000

The Hydro-Car by Horizon is a truly innovative design. This ‘toy’ car helps showcase the benefits of using hydrogen as a power source while being a fun invention to watch in action. The Hydro-Car helps to make the latest technology in fuel systems an accessible idea to all.

Hydrogen is abundant on this planet as the main component in water. Being able to make use of this element as a power source would lead to truly sustainable and clean energy. The fuel cell of the Hydro-Car allows hydrogen and oxygen to combine, producing electricity and water. This water can then be reused to extract hydrogen and oxygen so the system is one continuous cycle that can be sustained naturally. The Fuel cell is a reversible Polymer Electrolyte Membrane (PEM).

The Hydro-Car uses electrolysis to separate the hydrogen and oxygen out of distilled water (provided by you). It stores this in the tanks located at the back of the car, to then combine the hydrogen and oxygen to power the car. The electrolysis though does require powering, and so the kit includes a solar panel to provide a clean source on energy to provide this. The kit does also come with a battery pack that requires two AA batteries that can be used instead of the solar panel.

Once the car has hydrogen and oxygen stored in its tanks it is ready to go. You can see when the car is running from its own hydrogen as two blue LEDs will light up and flash on top of the motor. The Hydro-Car is able to independently navigate around a room avoiding obstacles in its path, it can reverse until it discovers a clear path to travel along.

The Hydro-Car comes in kit form with detailed instructions. These instructions help to teach you about hydrogen power and its advantages and through making the kit and achieving a working car model you will have gained insight into how a hydrogen fuel cell works. The Hydro-Car makes a great educational toy to show children some of the latest eco-friendly energy ideas while being fun to operate.

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Lunar Car – Solar Powered Robot Kit

Anita (EnviroGadget Writer) — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:00:09 +0000

The Solar Powered Lunar Car is a complex model that will move across a flat surface once assembled correctly. The model comes in multiple parts to construct which helps educate children on a multitude of things, like gear box operation, motor operation and the potential of solar power.

The Solar Powered Lunar Car Kit is constructed from balsa wood pieces which come on a pre cut board, needing to be pressed out and pieced together. The kit contains the parts needed for making the model work and complex instructions. The model is not simple to construct but has detailed instructions with illustrations to help you arrange over 100 parts into a working model. Through making the model you can learn about how motors and automatic transmissions work, how a gear box is constructed and how it operates, how the wiring goes together to connect everything and how the solar energy is taken and converted into electrical energy that the motor can use to operate the model.

The Solar Powered Lunar Car is a great educational model, helping children to learn through play on a multitude of areas. Because of its complexity though adult assistance will be required, also to construct the model you will need a screwdriver, long nose pliers, a sharp knife and sandpaper to help smooth the pieces. The model can be run from a battery instead of solar power, but requires you to provide this AA battery.

The Lunar Car costs just £19.12 plus delivery.

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Solar Powered Racer By Science Time

Anita (EnviroGadget Writer) — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 10:00:40 +0000

This Solar Powered Racer is a great way to educate children through play. It effectively demonstrates the abilities of solar panels in converting sunlight into electrical energy, this energy is then used to power a motor which causes the racer to race along. The Racer then shows a child how sunlight can be turned into movement.

The Solar Powered Racer has been created by Science Time as an educational toy to show how solar power can help provide the world with clean, free energy. The racer kit comes with detailed instructions for constructing the toy, which detail how the 8 parts it comes in are easily fitted together. The racer kit is suitable for children aged 8+, though this seems mainly down to the smaller parts in construction, younger children may enjoy watching the toy race once it has been constructed under adult supervision.

The Solar Powered Racer once constructed requires only light to work, this can be provided by direct sunlight or a bright indoor light bulb (though for educational purposes using sunlight would be best). This toy should provide a child with hours of enjoyment from constructing the racer to watching it work.

The solar racer is available for just £7.45 plus delivery.

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Solar Powered Bottle Boat Kit

Anita (EnviroGadget Writer) — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 10:00:13 +0000

The Solar Powered Bottle Boat kit contains the basic equipment required to transform a plastic bottle into a solar powered boat, just supply your own plastic bottle. The kit comes with an instruction book that gives the instructions to create three different boats: a surface submarine, a speed boat and an air boat. The kit can also be used in other ways, allowing some inventiveness with bottles and the equipment to create a powered boat.

The Solar Powered Bottle Boat kit is designed to help educate children about the alternative energy source of solar power. It also makes a great toy to play with that also allows you to ‘recycle’ a plastic bottle and learn about hydrodynamics by experimenting to find the best shape for a fast vessel.

The kit contains a 0.5 watt waterproof solar panel (measuring 10.8 cm x 4.1 cm ( 4.25 in x 1.63 in.)). This panel powers the motor that is included in the kit and comes with the wires needed to attach it. The motor is then attached to the water or air propeller (both included). The kit also contains other basic parts needed to connect the components to a plastic bottle, 63.5cm (25in) of mounting tape, two 12.7cm (5 in) metal shafts, and 2 wire nuts.

It does suggest using electrical tape and paint to decorate the vessels which you would need to provide yourself. Once created the boat will need direct sunlight (or a powerful light source) and a body of water to operate.

The solar-powered boat kit is costs just $24.95 from Spheral Solar.

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Frightened Grasshopper – Solar Powered Bug Toy

Anita (EnviroGadget Writer) — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 10:00:25 +0000

The Frightened Grasshopper is a little solar powered toy bug that moves around mimicking a real grasshopper. It is a life size model of a grasshopper that you construct yourself. Once built it will shiver or bounce around while under light.

This solar powered toy is meant to help educate children about solar power. By constructing the model themselves, the child will have a greater connection to this little bug toy, and through watching it once constructed they should see an effective demonstration of how the power of the sun is harnessed by the solar panel (PV cell) and converted into electrical energy.

That electrical power is then used by a motor within the bug to move the toy around on the surface it has been placed on. The toy bug works well in direct sunlight, but if that is not possible it should work well directly under a non-florescent light bulb.

The Frightened Grasshopper is meant for ages 10+. The toy is designed to be suitable as a first time science project to help teach children about alternative forms of energy. Available from Amazon for $14.49.

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