Abstract: (use past tense; procedure is too long; add conclusion
What we are studying on, is the lemon battery. What we really want to find out is, how much electricity can each citrus fruit will produce. The point of the project is to see how much electricity flows through each fruit. What we did was, get 5 citrus fruits and 2 of each fruit which are, lemons, apples, patatos, tangerines, and oranges and we started with a lemon and the first thing we did was get a penny and a nail and placed a nail in on side and a penny on the other side of the fruit, and we did the same thing with the other lemon (run-on). Then we got some alligator wires that were negative and positive charge, we connected the red wire to the the nail from one lemon and connect the other end of it to the second lemon but on to the penny. My partner and I, did the same thing with the red wires, once we were done placing the wire, their was a red wire, which has a positive charge and the black wire, which has a negative charge. There ( was the white wire which has the negative, so from their we made the decision to connect both negative and positive charge to the LED bulb. From their (sp) the LED bulb lit up. When we conducted our experiment some important observations that we see (vt) was how fast it (what?) lid (sp. lit) up the LED bulb. while we were observing our experiment we testing it on the lemon we noticed that if we left the LED bulb connected for to long it will burn out (confusing sentence). Another thing that we noticed, was when we were experimenting, the battery was getting hot and that meant we were doing something wrong. Then we switch a couple of wires around and connected it to the battery and it didnt get as hot as it did like the first time, so that meant that we're on the right track.( My hypothesis was.... After conducting this experiment, I felt... )
(Use 3rd person throughout report.)
Purpose: (no "I") Why is this experiment interesting or important to others?
We chose this topic because we thought it was/ is really interesting and we were curious about how a lemon can create enough energy to light up a LED light bulb. Every time we would read about this topic, we thought it would get more and more interesting along the way. We are also really interested in electricity so we thought it was cool if a LED light bulb can light up without any electricity and just with different type of citrus fruits.Then I started to jump into conclusions in what kind of citrus fruit will this work on and which one will produce the most electricity, and so now that’s what planning to find out in our experiment. I think people should be interested in this topic because later in the future this might help our society and save us lots of energy and save us lots of energy and from saving energy could also save lots of people money.
History
In 1800, Alessandro Volta discovered an acidic mixture of lemon juice served as an effective conductor of electrons (bold all glossary terms)between two dissimilar metals (source?). The grade schools lemon battery itself was not created by him, but it is the closet known source to that discovery. Volta discovery impressed the world on November 1800. Volta spread his invention with everybody including many countries. Alessandro Volta was born in Como Italy in 1745 were he meet a professor named Luigi Galvani and decided to work with him and Luigi had a theory that the only way to generate electricity was though an animal’s body. Until Volta discovered that it wasn’t the body that was generating the electricity, it was the metals that were within it which were brass and iron (source?). So in both ways both scientists were both correct. This a relates with a very historical wise man named Thomas Edison, from a poor student he became the most famous man in the world because of his creation of the light bulb. His great challenge was on his own creation on the light bulb, he managed to get through it. but in 1879 but using lower current electricity, and a small, carbonized filament, and produce a reliable, long- lasting source of light. The light bulb contained the elements that are safe and economical. The first public demonstration of the light system was in December 1879 and everything went perfect. Then the electric light brought Thomas Edison new levels of fame and wealth and spread around the world. He also has company and industries.
Process:
The light bulb works only if you add a negative and positive charge. That also includes if you have some sort of substance that creates that about of energy, for it to go though the wires and process it in the light bulb. After that the light bulb would get the energy and light up enough for anybody to see.The electricity works by using a negative and positive charge with the acidic juice of the lemon .What you need to power it would be the acidic juice of the lemon because that's the whole point, and then a battery to help it out just a little bit. The component of the electricity would be the lemon because if you didn't have the lemon then it wouldn't work completely.
Application: (find a source somewhere about citrus being used to generate electricity)
Electricity helps us turn on the lights in the dark and for many other things but the way our community is using our electricity, is that people are just wasting to much of it (run-on). Our experiment can help the world to become a better place because it does no harm to people or nature and its way easier to use then having a bunch of wires all over the place. but I hope in the future that people would take this in conservation and it will make are society a better safer environment to live in.
Glossary: (bold these terms in the research report)
1.Acidic- a substance with a sour taste
2.Citrus- rue family of lemons, lime, orange, tangerine, etc.
3.Component- a constituent part, element, ingredient.
4.Conducting- generating/producing
5.Electrons- a unit of charge equal to the charge on one electron
6.Energy- an adequate or abundant amount of such power
7.Electricity- a force, manifest I magnetism
8.Lemon- a subtropical tree; it’s a citrus fruit
9.Negative- decreasing, less then,smaller
10.Positive- increasing, more then, bigger.
Works Cited: (need at least 5; must cite these sources in the research report; check format to see where the periods go; make sure all links work; see first sample that I corrected for you)
Dang, Dave. "Lemon Battery Projec.t." 3 March 2013. How Things Work Science Project. http://www.how-things-work-science-projects.com/lemon-battery.html
Lisidor,B. "When the battery invented." 24 February 2013. Battery University. http: when_was_the_battery_invented?
3 fruits (lemon, tangerine, orange): 2 (should be 5!) of each (check abstract; it sitll includes potatoes and apples!)
10 alligator wires (any color)
6 nails (copper)
6 penny's (zinc)
LED bulb
AA batteries
Problem:
Which citrus fruit will produce electricity faster?
Procedure:(start with a commanding verb; include how you would do 5 trials)
Get a copper penny and a nail that’s made of zinc and gently place the nail 3 inches deep inside of 1 citrus fruit (which one?).
Get the other fruit and place a penny 3 inch deep.
Then get 2 alligator wires of any kind/color.
You grab 1 wire and get it by any end because on both of the ends they have the same design and connect it to the fruit with the penny in it.
In the other fruit that has a nail in it you have to get the other wire and connect it to the nail.
At the end of each wire you connect the other clips to the LED light bulb.
After your done with that you wait a couple of seconds for the juice of the lemon which is acidic to create that energy and for that energy to flow though both wires and reach to the LED light bulb.
Once that happens you will see a little spark and then it would create a little light that would be enough light for anyone to see.
Conclusion:
thought this experiment I have learned many things in electricity. I found out that 2 lemon can light up a LED bulb, with a negative and positive charge. That citrus fruit such as lemon, grape fruit, tangerines, oranges and etc. have that acidic juice in them that can power up a LED bulb, and the more citrus fruit added in the more electricity it with conduct. the hypothesis that I made was true it all went exactly the way I explain it.in our experiment what I did wrong was that I didn't connect the wires properly and then I connect it to the battery and that made the battery super hot and that's bad. but then I found out what I did and I connect them properly to the battery and then It didn't get hot.
Hypothesis:
If we get two lemons, a penny, and a copper nail and place them into a citrus fruit, then a acid from the lemon will create the most or least electricity and flow into the LED light bulb and it will light up.
Variables:Time of electricity conducted the the LED bulb. Control Variable: We have to time the LED light bulb, in seconds, and see how long it takes the LED light bulb to light up with three different kind of citrus fruits. Independent Variable:LED bulb (lemon juice, battery, wires)
Analysis:
Our experiment got tested on three fruit trails: tangerines, oranges, and lemons. Out of all of these citrus fruits, the slowest one to conduct electricity into the LED light bulb, was the oranges. The highest one that conducted the fastest electricity toward the LED light bulb was the tangerine, because of its bitterness. In our data table, it explained witch one of the 3 different citrus fruits was the highest and which one was the lowest.
Reflection:
When we did our research on our project, we were very shocked because we never knew it would be possible for a lemon to light up an LED light bulb, so in other words we were very shocked/surprised. From all the result of our test trials on the lemons, tangerines, and the oranges the result of the lemon sunrise me because I thought that the lemon would be very citrus and it would be the one to conduct more electricity and faster, but it didn't, the tangerine was the one that conducted more electricity and faster then the rest of the other citrus fruits. Next time, the thing that can be improved would be the wires, because if we were to ever do this project again, we would be more careful and know were to put the wires. Some ideas for the next project would be to pick another project that is little but, harder next time because this one wasn't easy but I accomplished It and i would like to do a much hard one next time. Next time I would want my project to be just a little bit harder next time because to me what I worked on wasn’t easy it was medium but I like to be challenged so I would like it to be a little harder on my next project.
Rubric for 2e.
Your Points
Total Points
Purpose
3.5
5
History
3.5
5
Process
2
5
Future (Current Applications)
3
5
Glossary (10, abc)
4
5
Works Cited
0
5
Total
16
30
Rubric for 2f- deadline extended to 4/30
You will get Tuesday class time (4/30) to make any additional revisions.
Must use 3rd person AND in-text citations for Purpose, History, Process, & Applications paragraphs.
Pts. Earned
Pts. Possible
Abstract (Q1-2)
3.5
5
Purpose
3
5
History
3
5
Process
3
5
Applications (Formerly Future)
3
5
Reflection (about research AND lab)
0
5
Glossary
4
5
Works Cited
2
5
Total
21.5
40
Rubric for 5-6ab- deadline 5/3
You will get class time (4/30 & 5/2) to make additional revisions to your wikispace page.
What we are studying on, is the lemon battery. What we really want to find out is, how much electricity can each citrus fruit will produce. The point of the project is to see how much electricity flows through each fruit. What we did was, get 5 citrus fruits and 2 of each fruit which are, lemons, apples, patatos, tangerines, and oranges and we started with a lemon and the first thing we did was get a penny and a nail and placed a nail in on side and a penny on the other side of the fruit, and we did the same thing with the other lemon (run-on). Then we got some alligator wires that were negative and positive charge, we connected the red wire to the the nail from one lemon and connect the other end of it to the second lemon but on to the penny. My partner and I, did the same thing with the red wires, once we were done placing the wire, their was a red wire, which has a positive charge and the black wire, which has a negative charge. There ( was the white wire which has the negative, so from their we made the decision to connect both negative and positive charge to the LED bulb. From their (sp) the LED bulb lit up. When we conducted our experiment some important observations that we see (vt) was how fast it (what?) lid (sp. lit) up the LED bulb. while we were observing our experiment we testing it on the lemon we noticed that if we left the LED bulb connected for to long it will burn out (confusing sentence). Another thing that we noticed, was when we were experimenting, the battery was getting hot and that meant we were doing something wrong. Then we switch a couple of wires around and connected it to the battery and it didnt get as hot as it did like the first time, so that meant that we're on the right track.( My hypothesis was.... After conducting this experiment, I felt... )
(Use 3rd person throughout report.)
Purpose: (no "I") Why is this experiment interesting or important to others?
We chose this topic because we thought it was/ is really interesting and we were curious about how a lemon can create enough energy to light up a LED light bulb. Every time we would read about this topic, we thought it would get more and more interesting along the way. We are also really interested in electricity so we thought it was cool if a LED light bulb can light up without any electricity and just with different type of citrus fruits.Then I started to jump into conclusions in what kind of citrus fruit will this work on and which one will produce the most electricity, and so now that’s what planning to find out in our experiment. I think people should be interested in this topic because later in the future this might help our society and save us lots of energy and save us lots of energy and from saving energy could also save lots of people money.
History
In 1800, Alessandro Volta discovered an acidic mixture of lemon juice served as an effective conductor of electrons (bold all glossary terms)between two dissimilar metals (source?). The grade schools lemon battery itself was not created by him, but it is the closet known source to that discovery. Volta discovery impressed the world on November 1800. Volta spread his invention with everybody including many countries. Alessandro Volta was born in Como Italy in 1745 were he meet a professor named Luigi Galvani and decided to work with him and Luigi had a theory that the only way to generate electricity was though an animal’s body. Until Volta discovered that it wasn’t the body that was generating the electricity, it was the metals that were within it which were brass and iron (source?). So in both ways both scientists were both correct.
This a relates with a very historical wise man named Thomas Edison, from a poor student he became the most famous man in the world because of his creation of the light bulb. His great challenge was on his own creation on the light bulb, he managed to get through it. but in 1879 but using lower current electricity, and a small, carbonized filament, and produce a reliable, long- lasting source of light. The light bulb contained the elements that are safe and economical. The first public demonstration of the light system was in December 1879 and everything went perfect. Then the electric light brought Thomas Edison new levels of fame and wealth and spread around the world. He also has company and industries.
Process:
The light bulb works only if you add a negative and positive charge. That also includes if you have some sort of substance that creates that about of energy, for it to go though the wires and process it in the light bulb. After that the light bulb would get the energy and light up enough for anybody to see.The electricity works by using a negative and positive charge with the acidic juice of the lemon .What you need to power it would be the acidic juice of the lemon because that's the whole point, and then a battery to help it out just a little bit. The component of the electricity would be the lemon because if you didn't have the lemon then it wouldn't work completely.
Application: (find a source somewhere about citrus being used to generate electricity)
Electricity helps us turn on the lights in the dark and for many other things but the way our community is using our electricity, is that people are just wasting to much of it (run-on). Our experiment can help the world to become a better place because it does no harm to people or nature and its way easier to use then having a bunch of wires all over the place. but I hope in the future that people would take this in conservation and it will make are society a better safer environment to live in.
Glossary: (bold these terms in the research report)
1.Acidic- a substance with a sour taste
2.Citrus- rue family of lemons, lime, orange, tangerine, etc.
3.Component- a constituent part, element, ingredient.
4.Conducting- generating/producing
5.Electrons- a unit of charge equal to the charge on one electron
6.Energy- an adequate or abundant amount of such power
7.Electricity- a force, manifest I magnetism
8.Lemon- a subtropical tree; it’s a citrus fruit
9.Negative- decreasing, less then,smaller
10.Positive- increasing, more then, bigger.
Works Cited: (need at least 5; must cite these sources in the research report; check format to see where the periods go; make sure all links work; see first sample that I corrected for you)
Dang, Dave. "Lemon Battery Projec.t." 3 March 2013. How Things Work Science Project. http://www.how-things-work-science-projects.com/lemon-battery.html
Lisidor,B. "When the battery invented." 24 February 2013. Battery University. http: when_was_the_battery_invented?
Independence Hall Association. "The lemon battery." 2 February 2013. Fun with Franklin. http://www.ushistory.org/Franklin/fun/lemon.htm.
Materials:
Problem:
Which citrus fruit will produce electricity faster?
Procedure:(start with a commanding verb; include how you would do 5 trials)
Conclusion:
thought this experiment I have learned many things in electricity. I found out that 2 lemon can light up a LED bulb, with a negative and positive charge. That citrus fruit such as lemon, grape fruit, tangerines, oranges and etc. have that acidic juice in them that can power up a LED bulb, and the more citrus fruit added in the more electricity it with conduct. the hypothesis that I made was true it all went exactly the way I explain it.in our experiment what I did wrong was that I didn't connect the wires properly and then I connect it to the battery and that made the battery super hot and that's bad. but then I found out what I did and I connect them properly to the battery and then It didn't get hot.
Hypothesis:
If we get two lemons, a penny, and a copper nail and place them into a citrus fruit, then a acid from the lemon will create the most or least electricity and flow into the LED light bulb and it will light up.
Variables:Time of electricity conducted the the LED bulb.
Control Variable: We have to time the LED light bulb, in seconds, and see how long it takes the LED light bulb to light up with three different kind of citrus fruits.
Independent Variable:LED bulb (lemon juice, battery, wires)
Analysis:
Our experiment got tested on three fruit trails: tangerines, oranges, and lemons. Out of all of these citrus fruits, the slowest one to conduct electricity into the LED light bulb, was the oranges. The highest one that conducted the fastest electricity toward the LED light bulb was the tangerine, because of its bitterness. In our data table, it explained witch one of the 3 different citrus fruits was the highest and which one was the lowest.
Reflection:
When we did our research on our project, we were very shocked because we never knew it would be possible for a lemon to light up an LED light bulb, so in other words we were very shocked/surprised. From all the result of our test trials on the lemons, tangerines, and the oranges the result of the lemon sunrise me because I thought that the lemon would be very citrus and it would be the one to conduct more electricity and faster, but it didn't, the tangerine was the one that conducted more electricity and faster then the rest of the other citrus fruits. Next time, the thing that can be improved would be the wires, because if we were to ever do this project again, we would be more careful and know were to put the wires. Some ideas for the next project would be to pick another project that is little but, harder next time because this one wasn't easy but I accomplished It and i would like to do a much hard one next time. Next time I would want my project to be just a little bit harder next time because to me what I worked on wasn’t easy it was medium but I like to be challenged so I would like it to be a little harder on my next project.
Rubric for 2e.
You will get Tuesday class time (4/30) to make any additional revisions.
Must use 3rd person AND in-text citations for Purpose, History, Process, & Applications paragraphs.
Rubric for 5-6ab- deadline 5/3
You will get class time (4/30 & 5/2) to make additional revisions to your wikispace page.