Fossil Fuels

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




 

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.   Oils
3.   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 by using huge machines used by coal miners. They use these huge machines to remove coal from the ground, there are also two methods of mining coal. Surface and underground mining.
2. Oil is mined by using instruments such as gravimeters and magnetometers, extracting crude oil normally starts with drilling wells into an underground reservoir.
3. Natural gas is mined just like how oil is mined.

Where are they mined?

1. US
2. Russia
3. China
4. India
5. Austraillia 

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.  Toothpicks
2.  Chocolate chip cookie
3.  Plate/bowl

Steps:

1.  Grab your plate and put the cookie on top. 
2.  Get your toothpicks.
3.  Start taking off the chocolate on the cookie.
4.  Try not to destroy the cookie.
5.  You should have a non-chocolate cookie!

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

Picture 1: Before Mining

Picture 2: After Mining

Findings: What did you find out as a result of your mining? The cookie was a bit different that before, but it still had a bit of chocolate in the middle and the inside of the cookie. There were more cracks and holes than before. 

Conclusion: I have learned that fossil fuels are very dangerous such as mining. I also learned how coal, oil, and natural gas is mined.