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 is a natural fuel 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 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.   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.Coal - Coal is mined by the extractions of coal deposits from the surface and underground of earth, 

2. Oil - Machines as gravimeters and magnetometers can be used in searching for oil, by drilling well into an underground reservoir.

3. Natural gas is normally mined like oil is, First a large drilling machine is drilled into the dirt and soil to the natural gas.

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 is some question below that you need to answer about to the 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 mining on your habitat.
6.   After your done drawing you need to answer the question about how it changes and what happened on the life of the living things that live on your habitat.

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

Findings: 

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Conclusion:

I really liked to learn about fossil fuels and it was fun I was actually away in this session but I got some help from a friend you and you should check out her blog which is

Shiela Yap