fossil fuels

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

Definition of Fossil Fuels:
A natural fuel such as coal or 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 gases

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. Digging
2. Scraping
3. Exposing buried resources
4. Drilling

Where are they mined?

1.  America
2.  Russia
3.  China
4.  Australia
5.  India

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.   Plate
3.   Toothpick
4.  Paper

Steps:

1.   Get the sheet of paper
2.   Get your cookie
3.   Get you toothpicks
4.   Poke all the choc chips out of the cookie
5.   Draw a habitat before and after mining.

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

Findings: Mining is destroying our planet.

Conclusion: We should stop mining.