Science - 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 is a natural fuels such as cola 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.   oil 
2.   coal
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? Coal, oil and natural gas
How are they mined?

1. Fossil fuels formed as result of plants and animals that died million of years ago.
2. They are found underneath the Earth's surface at varying depths.
3. Natural gas is found in deep underground rock formations.
4. Coal is mined by the extractions of coal deposits from the surface and underground of earth.

Where are they mined?

1.  The United States
2. Australia
3. Russia
4. China
5. South Africa

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.   Paper
3.   Pen
4.  toothpick 

Steps:

1.  First you need to draw the cookie don't break because you need to compare the cookie after you remove the chocolate chip.
2. After that you need to draw a habitat it can a forest or something you want. 
3.   There are some question below that you need to answer about to your habitat you need to answer these questions.
4.   After that you need to remove the chocolate chips from the cookie using the toothpick and draw the cookie again.
5.   You need to draw your habitat and imagine that some people do a mining on your habitat.
6.   After your done drawing you need to answer the question about how it change and what happen on the life of the living things that living on your habitat.

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

Findings: 

 

Conclusion:  When i answer the question after mining  i realized that mining is not good to our nature because it can affect to some animals that living in their habitat because they can day because of the acid that some people using when mining. I like this lesson because i learn something new that i can used for other work that i need to do.