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Making a battery out of soil*

Soil battery

Making a battery out of soil*

Students will demonstrate how the chemical energy stored in soils can be transformed into other useful forms of energy. (1.5h)

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NGS Standard(s):

PS3A: Definitions of energy;  PS3B: Conservation of energy and energy transfer;  PS3C: Relationship between energy and forces;  PS3D: Energy in chemical processes and everyday life;  ESS3A: Natural resources;  ETS1A: Defining and delimiting an engineering problem; 

Grade(s):

4th Grade;