Fossil fuels

Hurumanu - Fossil Fuels.

 

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

Definition of Fossil Fuels:

solid material naturally from caves minded to make fuel 

gases from the earth surface

Scientific Terms for Students

• coal: a dark-brown to 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.  gas 
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 stationary from the teacher.

Mining Fossil Fuels

How are they mined?

1. scraping 

2. digging

3. Drilling

4. exposing 

Where are they mined?

1. Deep within the earth through under ground mining

2. You can find fossil fuels around the surface of the earths crust

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, buses, flax, sea, etc)

Material:

1.  cookie
2.  sheet of paper
3.   pencil
4.  plate
5. tooth pick

Steps:

1. get the materials  
2.  draw what the cookie looks like 
3.   draw the cookies habitat 
4.   answer the question
5.   mine the cookie
6. draw what it looks like after
7. draw what the habitat looks like after
8. eat the cookie

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

after

Findings: What did you find out as a result of your mining?
That the cookie was normal then turned different after picking out the chocolate chips. The cookie changed in taste as well once picking out the chocolate chips. The habitat was a beautiful place the go to until one day mining happened there are the habitat complete changed.

Conclusion: Today I learnt that more about the three departments of fossil fuels which are coal, oil and natural gases. I would like to learning more about the three departments mapping around the world. I liked today's lesson but especially liked mining a cookie and a habitat