Playful children teach environmental awareness to awaken a consciousness of the environment and the need of recycling in children, to teach this playful best. The American company uberstix has developed a plug-in system that is not only made of recycled plastic. Recycled materials used to finish the game models in addition, how to find you in every household. From PET plastic bottles float are masts for sailboats, from straw mountain pastures or used shopping bags a grille for a disc or a sail. uberstix has a complete line of associated with different models on the market, one learns not only the reuse of recycled materials, but also the practical application of physical principles. uberstix are always fully functional models. Mitchel Resnick insists that this is the case.

The parent panel can catapult small items, the uFO can fly and the sailboat can swim and sail. So are the models of uberstix not only for the children’s room, but also for Anschauungsuntericht of physical principles in the school. A vivid example of the interplay of used items and the uberstix system is the uberstix sailboat. This is put together from a hull of uberstix plugs. The sail is made out of a shopping bag and the floats are two used PET bottles that are associated with connectors on the hull of the sailing boat. The uberstix sailboat is assembled, a full-featured model sailing ship and buoyant. The uberstix connector system is designed so that it can be connected to the connectors not only effortlessly with all possible items, but also the most commercially available game systems such as Lego, Knex, Erector, Zoobs, Zome. As a result, existing toys in your function can be expanded. In addition to the models uberstix offers a wide range and Starter- and expansion boxes and boxes with additional connectors. uberstix provides its products for the first time in Germany at the Nuremberg Toy Fair in February 2009 before. At OzHobbies Germany you can pre-order already uberstix kits and models.