Fossil Fuels

 

Aim: To look at how fossil fuels are contributing to climate change and how we can prevent this.

Definition of Fossil Fuels:

Scientific Terms for Students

• Coal: a dark-brown to a black solid substance formed naturally from the compaction and hardening of fossilized plants and used as a fuel primarily for electricity generation
• Natural gas: a mixture of hydrocarbon gases that occurs naturally beneath the earth’s surface and is used as a fuel primarily for cooking and heating homes
• Renewable resource: a resource that is never used up (e.g., solar energy)
• Non-renewable resource: a resource that is not replaceable after its use (e.g., coal, gas)

Examples of Fossil Fuels:

1.   Coal
2.  Wood  
3. Oil

Activity: 

In groups of 3, you will learn about different fossil fuels and the way they are mined?

Each group will be given a fossil fuel. The recorder will read it to the group. The recorder will write down some of the important points.

Person 1: Recorder: to write down 5 points of interest from the text. 

1. 5 Points:
2. Positives and negatives of your type of mining.

Person 2: Reporter: to read back to the class their 5 points of interest.

Person 3: Collector: Gathers the required stationery from the teacher.

Mining Fossil Fuels

What Fossil Fuels are mined? 

1.Coal

How are they mined?

Coal is extracted from the surface of the earth or from deep within the earth (called underground mining). Where are they mined?

1.  Coal is mined in South Africa, America, USA, England.

Activity;

On the sheet provided you need to make two drawings of your cookie. 

1. looking down at it. 

2. side on -  of the imaginary habitat that will live on the top of the cookie. ( trees, bushes, flax, sea, etc)

Material:

1.  Cookie
2.   Plate
3.   Toothpick

Steps:

1.   Get your materials
2.   Get your cookie and put it on your plate
3.   Grab your toothpick and start minding
4.   See if you and get all the chocolate chips out of your cookie
5.   And then enjoy eating the crumbs of the cookie 

Once you have drawn your cookies you must take 2 pictures and upload them to your blog.

Findings: What did you find out as a result of your mining?

That it was a little hard because we had to try to get all the chocolate chips out from around the outside without breaking it but other than that it was really easy and really fun to do. 

Conclusion: 

It was easy but hard at the same time but it was really fun and cool. 

recycling

Zero Waste

Aim: To learn practical ways of recycling so that we can make our world a better place.

The Zero Waste Climate Solution movie

How can we prevent climate change though recycling these products?

Plastics:So we dont need to use coal or electricity
Cycling or walking:so we dont need to use gas or oils
Paper:less cutting down trees
Steel:Not going to burn as much coal burning it and releasing CO2 

Video questions:

What is Zero Waste?

one of the quickest and cheapest ways a community can immediately reduce climate impact

What can we do on the planet?

1.  Reduse 
2.  Reuse
3. Recycle
4. Repair 
5. Redesign

What do we need to recycle?

Plastic, Paper, Metal and Glass

What does recycling do?

prevents less CO2 being released into the air  

How much of our rubbish is food scraps?

157,389 tonnes in New Zealand 

What does soil do to carbon dioxide in the atmosphere?
absorb the CO2 and stores the CO2

What is a carbon footprint?

The amount of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere as a result of the activities of a particular individual, organization, or community.

How can you make your Carbon Footprint smaller?

not burn as much fossil fuel from factory and etc, also by sharing resorses and recycling.

ENERGY SAVING TIPS FILM

Name 4 of the tips.

1.   Solar Power
2.   reducing your rubbish that you put in the land fills
3.   Turning off switches to things your not using
4.    consuming less stuff

AT WHAT RATES DO DIFFERENT ITEMS DECOMPOSE?

MY INVESTIGATION.

Choose 5 items from the list and investigate them. 

You need to answer three questions.

Name: News Paper

1. How long do they take to decompose/ 2-4 weeks
2. What resource / fossil fuel are they made from?Trees
3. How is this resource recycled?It gets put in the yellow bins
4. How does this object contribute to climate change?cutting down trees and releasing CO2 when they are getting burned

Name: orange Peels

1. How long do they take to decompose?3-6 months
2. What resource / fossil fuel are they made from? Trees
3. How is this resource recycled?put it in the green bin
4. How does this object contribute to climate change? cutting down trees and releasing CO2 when they are getting burned

Name:Plastic Bag 

1. How long do they take to decompose?10-20 years
2. What resource / fossil fuel are they made from?oil
3. How is this resource recycled?by putting it in the red bin
4. How does this object contribute to climate change?fossil fuels are released when the plastic bags are being made

Name: Plastic 6 Pk Ring

1. How long do they take to decompose?400-500 years
2. What resource / fossil fuel are they made from?disposable packaging
3. How is this resource recycled? by putting it in the recycling bin
4. How does this object contribute to climate change?CO2 is being released by getting made 

Name: Glass Bottle

1. How long do they take to decompose?500-Forever
2. What resource / fossil fuel are they made from?liquid sand
3. How is this resource recycled?put in the recycling bin
4. How does this object contribute to climate change?Releasing CO2 into the air by making it

water cycle

AIM: TO LOOK AT THE WATER CYCLE AND HOW CLIMATE CHANGE IS AFFECTING IT.

 

Definition:

EVAPORATION:

THE PROCESS OF TURNING FROM A LIQUID INTO VAPOR.

THE PROCESS OF SOMETHING ABSTRACT CEASING TO EXIST.

 

TRANSPIRATION:

(OF A PLANT OR A LEAF) THE EXHALATION OF WATER VAPOR THROUGH THE STOMATA.

(PLANTS LOSE MORE THAN 90 PERCENT OF THEIR WATER THROUGH TRANSPIRATION)

 

PRECIPITATION: 

THE ACTION OR PROCESS OF PRECIPITATING A SUBSTANCE OF A SOLUTION.

RAIN, SNOW, SLEET, OR HAIL THAT FALLS TO OR CONDENSES ON THE GROUND.

 

CONDENSATION:

WATER WHICH COLLECTS AS DROPLETS ON A COLD SURFACE WHEN HUMID AIR IS IN CONTACT WITH IT.

THE CONVERSION OF A VAPOR OR GAS TO A LIQUID.

 

 

Scientific words:

 

EVAPORATION. WHEN WATER IS HEATED BY RADIANT ENERGY IT TURNS INTO WATER VAPOR.

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TRANSPIRATION. EVAPORATION FROM PLANTS.

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CONDENSATION. WHEN WATER VAPOR COOLS, MOLECULES JOIN TOGETHER AND FORM CLOUDS.

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PRECIPITATION. WHEN CLOUDS GET HEAVY THE WATERS FALLS AS RAIN, SLEET, HAIL, OR SNOW.

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ACIDIFICATION: THE ACTION OR PROCESS OF MAKING OR BECOMING ACIDIC.

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WE WILL BE CONDUCTING AN EXPERIMENT THAT LOOKS AT THE DIFFERENT WAYS THAT CLIMATE CHANGE IS AFFECTING THE WATER CYCLE.

THE WATER CYCLE EXPERIMENT

BAG 1: NORMAL WATER CYCLE

BAG 2: WATER CYCLE WITH CO2 ADDED: LIKE OCEANS IN CLIMATE CHANGE

BAG 3: WATER CYCLE WITH ICE ADDED: LIKE ANTARCTICA IN CLIMATE CHANGE

Material:

 PLASTIC BAG

1. 
   

VIVID MARKER

2. 
   

 1 CUP OF WATER

3. 
   

  2 DROPS OF FOOD COLORING

4. 
   

Steps:

 GOT OUR BAG

1. 
   

 WE DREW EVERYTHING WE NEEDED TO ON IT.

2. 
   

NEXT, WE ADDED 1 CUP OF WATER

3. 
   

THE ADDED 2 DROPS OF FOOD COLORING

4. 
   

AFTER THAT, I ADDED DOUBLE-SIDED TAPE ON ONE SIDE OF THE BAG AND TAPED IT TO THE WINDOW.

5. 
   

Two Images:

 

Findings: It was really easy to make and do.

 

Conclusion:

Findings:

 

 

	The Water Cycle: Bag 1	CO2 Water Cycle: Bag 2 Acid	Desert Water Cycle Bag 3
Does it cycle?	Yes	Yes	Yes
Amount of Water	2	2	2
Acidity	1	2	1

                                                  Key: Water and acidity amount: 1 = none 

2 = small drips

3 = large drips

 

Other comments:

1. Water cycle 1 had no acidity 

2 Water cycle bag 1-2-3 both have a small amount of drips in them.

3 Water cycle bag 1&3 have no acidity in them

4 Water cycle 1-2-3- all cycle

 

 

Conclusion:

It was fun and learned heaps

 

 

 

 

Draw a labeled diagram of the Water Cycle

Water cycle words:

1. Precipitation
2. Hurricanes
3. Storms
4. Evaporation
5. Carbon Dioxide
6. Water
7. Oceans
8. Water vapour
9. Freshwater
10. Flooding

SOLO Hexagons Activity

 

 

 

 

1. Icecap melt 

2. Acidification 

3. Deforestation

4. Water vapour

 

Icecap melt definition:

A polar ice cap is a region of land at the North or South Pole of a planet that is covered with ice. ... As the polar ice caps melt, sea levels rise and the oceans become less saline.

2 pictures:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Deforestation definition:

Deforestation is the clearing of trees, transforming a forest into clear land. You can see the word forest in deforestation.