Summary
Mark builds a giant battery out of lemons to power a real device, showing how a chemical reaction can make electricity. He scales the classic classroom lemon battery way up.
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Ages 7+
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Teaching resources
Discussion questions
Talk about it
Inside the lemon, a chemical reaction between two different metals pushes electricity through a wire — turning chemical energy into electrical energy.
- Where does the electricity in a lemon battery actually come from?
- Why do you need two different metals for it to work?
- Why did Mark need so many lemons to power his device?
Quick work-a-long
Vocabulary: chemical energy, electrical energy, battery, current.
Try it: If you can, build a single lemon (or potato) battery with a zinc nail and copper coin. Describe what you observe.