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: Fossil fuels are a Natural fuel like coal and oil (gas), formed in the geological past from the remains of living organisms.

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.   oil
3. natural gas

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

What Fossil Fuels are mined? 
How are they mined? 

1. Coal is mined.
2. Oil.
3. natural gas.


Where are they mined?

1. China
2. Australia
3. Saudi Arabia
4. Russia
5. United States

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. paper 
2. tooth pick  
3. cookie  
4. plate 

Steps:

1. We had got the paper from the teacher.
2. We have got the cookie given from the teachers
3. We had to fill in the paper and draw the cookie before and after.  
4.  We had to mine the cookie with the toothpick and take the chocolate chips out.
5.  We then had to put the paper on the blog.

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?

Conclusion: There are 3 Fossil fuel and they are called:

1. Coal

2. Oil

3. Natural Gas

Where ever the fossil fuels are, and what ever is above will die. If there is animals above they will die. It can be in the ocean and Forest.