Count Alessandro Volta

Count Alessandro Volta invented the first battery.  He used the idea from Luigi Galvani who was working with frogs.  Nowadays, we are dependent upon our batteries, Whoops, I have to plug in the laptop, computer it is only at 10%!


Read this fun website about Count Alessandro Volta!
http://www.energyquest.ca.gov/scientists/volta.html

Vocabulary

a noble family

pioneer

electrostatics, 

meteorology   

pneumatics

anatomist

dissecting

vicinity

 modified 

a current

a wet battery called a Voltaic Pile

 closed the circuit

Questions

What is a "volt?"

What is his most famous invention?

What other fields did he work in? 

Why did he work with frogs?

Explain the action of the Voltanic Pile. 

Why was it a pile?

Why was it filled salt water?

Why does it work?

How do you close a circuit?

Who made Volta a Count? Why?

How is this battery similar or different from our batteries?

What was this invention used for? 

Was this invention used to store power? 

Lesson Plan by Rachael Alice Orbach - Professional English teacher