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Lemon Battery

Make a battery from lemons, a nail and a coin and measure its voltage as you add more lemons.

Grade 5ExperimentBuildScienceEngineeringElectricityChemistryMeasurementIntermediate40 to 65 min6 materialsAdult supervision required

What you'll learn

  • Describe how a battery turns chemical energy into electrical energy
  • Measure voltage with a multimeter
  • Show that cells connected in series add their voltages

Objective

Build a chemical battery from lemons and measure how the voltage grows with the number of lemons connected in a row.

STEM concepts

BatteriesElectrodesElectrolyteSeries circuits
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