This resource provides information about rechargeable batteries, recycling, and conservation.

French physicist Gaston Plante invented the first rechargeable battery, leaving an enduring legacy in battery history. To see it, just pop the hood of your car.

Battery Facts provides helpful information about the benefits of batteries, how they work, and the concerns over the footprint they leave on the environment when they are not properly disposed of.

Explains how a dry cell battery works, the chemical reactions that take place in it, how to use a multimeter to test its strength, what dry cell batteries are used for, their advantages, and about recycling. [The article suggests placing...

Batteries are a triumph of science-they allow smartphones and other technologies to exist without anchoring us to an infernal tangle of power cables. Yet even the best batteries will diminish daily, slowly losing capacity until they...

Although it never quite measured up to expectations, the Edison battery paved the way for the modern alkaline battery.

Take a look inside a battery and change the voltage to see what goes on inside. Read the voltmeter as little stick people move the charges from one end of the battery to the other.

This investigation has students investigating and measuring the decay of batteries as their electric charges are used up in circuits.

Using simple materials, students will learn how to create batteries, and about the relationship between voltage and current.

Create a battery that is strong enough to power a light or a small motor in this activity. Activity uses simple materials such as: aluminum foil, salt water, and charcoal to make this battery.

In this activity students will create a battery by placing their hands on two different metal plates.

Young scholars work in teams to explore how a flashlight works. This activity examines the topics of batteries, electron flow, circuit systems, switches, and bulbs.

Hunkin's Experiments is a group of simple cartoon illustrations of scientific principles. Some would work well in the classroom, but others have little value beyond entertaining students. All of the projects are easy to do. This one...

A discussion of various principles related to voltage. The operation of battery testers and voltmeters are explained. The importance of the internal resistance of a power source is discussed.

This chart provides an overview of the history of the battery and the generation of electricity.

Battery Solutions offers a short summary of two of the major methods for recycling lithium batteries.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Batteries have both an ideal internal voltage and a terminal voltage, which is less due to internal resistance. This lesson presents sample problems and a video...

Determine the internal resistance of a battery based on the electrochemical potential and the voltage that is measured at the terminals of the battery when it is being used.

Determine the internal resistance of a battery based on the electrochemical potential and the current that comes out of the battery when it is hooked to a resistor.

Determine the internal resistance of a battery based on the electrochemical potential and the current that comes out of the battery when it is hooked to a series of resistors connected in parallel.

Determine the voltage of the battery based on the colors of the resistors and the current in the series circuit.

This lab is designed to have students look at the change in the terminal voltage of a battery that occurs as you draw more current from the battery.

Work output from any process comes at a price. That price is the energy input required to drive the process. A fact of reality (also called the Second Law of Thermodynamics) is that the input energy is always greater than the output...

In this inquiry, students will attempt to build an electrolytic cell which will cause a bulb to turn on then diagram the set-up. Included in this lab, students will experience voltage, solve a problem using the Nernst equation, and...