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Lemon Batteries Revised

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders investigate how chemical energy in food and batteries is potential or stored energy. They discuss how batteries function, and create a class list of different forms of energy. Students then create a lemon battery that...
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Carnegie Mellon University

Battery Workshop

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Introduce your class to the workings and parts of a battery-operated circuit. Pairs of pupils use lemons to make batteries and measure voltage and current with a multimeter. An accompanying worksheet is used for recording values and...
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An Electro-Olympic Event: Lemon vs. Lime

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students design a battery, identify and label the anode, cathode, electron flow, ion flow, oxidation & reduction reactions, chemicals used including the location of each;and distinguish between anode materials with regard to energy...
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Lemon Battery

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students construct their own battery made of lemons. In this electrochemistry lesson, students explain why lemons conduct electricity. They perform a series of experiments to investigate its conductivity.
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Battery fun

For Students 4th - 5th
Conduct an experiment with batteries to make a simple circuit. Fifth graders read the provided information, consider the two circuits, and determine which one is complete. An electrically charged experiment suggestion is included. Tip:...
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Lemon "Juice"

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Middle schoolers explore the concept of electricity in this lesson as they measure the electricity that a lemon gives off. Learners use volt meters to measure the amount of electricity coming from the lemon. Your class will also measure...
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Get a Job.....Build a Battery!

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students design and construct a battery (electrochemical cell). They works in a team to design and construct a working battery and is responsible for a labeled diagram of its operation. This engaging lesson stimulate their creative juices!
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Electrical Battery

For Teachers K - 12th
Students investigate the different types of batteries and how they work.  In this energy lesson students experiment with batteries and see which ones last the longest.
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A Salt and Battery

For Students 9th - 12th
For this battery worksheet, learners read about oxidation-reduction reactions and voltaic cells. They are given a diagram of an electrochemical cell and they answer four questions using the cell. They also identify the anode given two...
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How Smart are You about Electricity, Batteries and Conductors?

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students create working circuits. In this electricity and circuits lesson, students make a battery, then build a flashlight and use part of the flashlight to create a conductivity tester.
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Coin Battery

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students explore basic principles of electricity and create their own battery.
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Make a Battery From a Lemon

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders construct a voltaic battery. They change chemical energy into electrical energy by inserting copper wire into a lemon. They discover the tingle of the wire on their tongue is due to the movement of electrons.
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Citrus Batteries

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students create models of voltaic cells using lemons. They place both a copper strip and a zinc strip into a lemon about a half inch apart and touch both leads at the same time to their tongue. After recording their observations,...
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Electricity

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students explore electricity. After watching a PowerPoint presentation, students discuss the composition of electricity and how it is made. They participate in discovery activities by rotation through four activity stations set up on the...
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A Bright Idea

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students establish an understanding of electricity and then demonstate that understanding by creating a basic experiment involving a lemon battery. They reflect on the importance of electricity.
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Redox and Electrochemistry

For Students 9th - 12th
In this redox and electrochemistry worksheet, students identify the anode in electrode pairs of electrochemical cells. They also describe how a lemon battery works and how wet and dry voltaic cells work.
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Power Play

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Once your physical science stars have a grasp of the different forms of energy, use this resource to get them putting the energy to work. Small groups choose from seven different project options and work together to build an energy...
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Electrical Energy

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students compare and contrast a cell and a battery. In this physical science lesson, students explain how they create energy. They conduct an experiment to apply what they have learned in this lesson.
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Making a Battery

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders make a battery. In this physical science lesson plan, 5th graders word in pairs make the battery. Students follow 4 steps to create the battery.
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Transformation of Energy

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders explore and discuss how several electrical devices work and what energy conversions occur in each device. They connect a zinc strip to a copper strip with alligator clips and wire, immersing each strip in lemon and check...
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Micron Technology Foundation

Electricity

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
Conduct four electrifying electricity experiments that challenge young scientists to explore positive and negative charges and magnetic fields without the shock.
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The Transfer of Energy 2: Electrochemistry

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers study about electrochemistry by increasing their understanding of electron transfer and its role in chemical changes. They explain that energy appears in different forms. Heat energy is in the disorderly motion of...
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DiscoverE

Squishy Circuits

For Teachers K - 12th
Make electricity flow through Play-Doh. Individuals create animals or other creatures using Play-Doh. The engineering aspect? Eyes that light up and Play-Doh that conducts electricity.
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Water and Ice

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students investigate how water changes state. In this water lesson, students observe, measure, and describe water as it changes state. This lesson includes extensions which can be accessed via the provided web links.

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