Science Buddies: "Ask an Expert"

How do I light a light bulb with a potato or lemon?

gmburris wrote:How do I light a light bulb with a potato or lemon?

This is a very common project... I did it myself in elementary school about a million years ago!

If you want instructions for the project, I suggest using a search engine such as google and try such searches as "electricity from a lemon" or "lemon battery". Pretty much any set of key words works here, since it is such a popular experiment.

If you want to know how this works, you do the same search, read about different types of cells, and then post back here with questions.

Louise

It is one of the ScienceBuddies projects and there are very detailed instructions in the this website:
https://www.sciencebuddies.org/mentorin ... ?from=Home

franklinduan wrote:It is one of the ScienceBuddies projects and there are very detailed instructions in the this website:
https://www.sciencebuddies.org/mentorin ... ?from=Home

Interesting. I like the variations and the questions posed, but I think there are clearer instructions at other sites.

However, the best way to get a good experimental procedure is to read a bunch of different procedures. See which elements are in common, and which instructions are best written, and use pieces of each.

Louise