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.