Introduction to Energy Storage – Bell Ringer
Summary
Students reflect on how batteries power everyday life before considering what modern routines would look like without them. Four short prompts move from personal inventory to imaginative scenario to big-picture thinking about energy storage development. Works as a low-stakes opener for a middle or high school energy storage unit.
Name three things in your house that use batteries. Which item do you use the most?
In a short paragraph, describe what your day might look like if you couldn’t use anything powered by a battery.
Why do you think batteries have become such an important part of modern energy use?
What is one way you would like to see batteries further developed?
