Chemestry:  illustrates that materials can react to form new materials and then those materials may react with something to form yet another material.  So it illustrates the principals of chemistry but not exact materials and reactions.

Physics:  Illustrates the raw principals.  Gravity, thermal conduction, chain reactions, pressure, temperature, velocity.  Not completely accurate but maybe better than the chemestry.

Electronics:  in real life electricity has many variables.  Voltage, current, frequency, power.  In powder toy none of those variables apply, it is just "SPARK".  however a great deal can be learned about digital logic as those principals still apply.  Logic gates, switches, timers, clocks and complex control sytems can be constructed.

This Toy will encourage a taste for science and technology.  I hope he has a great time with it.

I Agree. Tpt Does Give You The Knowledge About Coding, Or Logical Skills Needed For Real Life.

I can't really say much because by the time I got into TPT I was already an excellent chemist and scientist, in terms of knowledge. However, if you know your kid wants to learn about science you really should point out to him that TPT isn't intended to be 100% scientifically accurate, something to revise for a test over, before it gets all misleading and it will be more difficult for him to adapt to real study...after all, chemistry and physics are not simple...trust me...

... this is a game of fun.

like 90% is unreal and 10% is real.

@lrjleyba (View Post)
The developers/mods can help boost your son learn code. Also I read outdated encyclopedia's to see what they knew in the 1970's-1993 it helped boost my reading level in 8th grade to a 10th grade level. Also the game can be very educationl to an uneducational standerd. Most users (including me) like realistic reactions. But The Powder Toy can help boost his education. The Powder Toy developers help users for real life skills and logical.