NASA
Nasa: The Space Place: Power Up With Tortillas!
This site from NASA provides The Space Place which gives a great explanation of energy sources for young readers using the space shuttle, cars, and our human body as examples.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Hybrid Automobiles
Examine a car engine illustration to discover the relationship between a motor and a generator. List the pros and cons of hybrid cars, and create a poster on series hybrid cars, parallel hybrid cars or how hybrid cars are different from...
Hunkins Experiments
Hunkin's Experiments: How to Make Oxygen From a Battery
Hunkin's Experiments is a group of simple cartoon illustrations of scientific principles. Some would work well in the classroom, but others have little value beyond entertaining students. All of the projects are easy to do. This one...
Science Struck
Science Struck: Advantages and Disadvantages of Lithium Ion Batteries
Discusses the pros and cons of using lithium-ion batteries.
Science Struck
Science Struck: Lemon Battery Experiment
In this step-by-step experiment, you will learn how to make a battery using four lemons and use it to light an LED bulb.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Baseball: Learn All About the Sport Baseball
Find out about baseball player positions, rules, terms, and strategy of the game on this webpage.
McGraw Hill
Online Learning Center: Electric Potential and Capacitance
A series of pages which define key terms and explain basic concepts related to electric potential. Includes a set of practice problems with answers and solutions.
Science4Fun
Science4 Fun: Batteries
What are batteries? Explores the difference between batteries and cells, how batteries work, and the different types.
Wolfram Research
Wolfram Science World: Alessandro Volta
This site from ScienceWorld provides a very short biographical sketch of Alessandro Volta and describes his most notable scientific discoveries and contributions. Several links are also provided for additional information.
Curated OER
How Stuff Works: Batteries
We use batteries in different ways almost daily. Read this article to find out about batteries and how they work.
Curated OER
Flower Vase Receptacle, Ca. 1810
Enlightening history of hearing aid devices from the 19th century on.
Curated OER
Exploratorium: Groovey Sounds: Sound Science Project: Hand Battery
Illustration of a hand battery experiment.