Gilligan Myth

My children enjoy watching Mythbusters and Gilligan's Island, so it's quite natural for them to have come up with a Gilligan's Island myth to test.  Below is what Tiana wrote about it:

Anyone who's seen Gilligan's Island should know this myth.  Can you really charge batteries with salt water, bobby pins, pennies, wire, and cocounts?  Well today my sister Alina and my brother Daniel decided to try it out!  This was really fun to do.  so go ahead and do it yourself!

All you need is:

Bobby Pins

 Wire

 Salt (and water)

 Pennies

 After you get everything together put the salt into bowls (or coconuts!)

Then you want to place the wire under the bobby pin, but make sure the wire is on top of the penny.

Then we used scotch tape to hold the wire on the battery. Be sure and tape the wire on both the top and the bottom of the battery.

 Next take chop sticks (or anything else you want) and stir the salt water. Keep stirring for awhile

If you want to know if it really works, here's a spoiler (but those of you who plan to do this yourself don't look until after you do it!) Myth Confirmed. In other words, it really works!


Have a great rest of your day everyone!