Hurumanu: Fossil Fuels

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:

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 - Coal is made from extracting coal that is from the ground. The biggest countries to have coal is USA, Russia, China and India.   
2. Oil - Oil is made by tiny plants and animals from over a million years ago. These tiny plants and animals are called “ Plankton.”
3. Natural Gas -  Natural Gas is made deep in the ocean. Dead and decaying organic matter is layered under a sedimentary rock under that is 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 stationery from the teacher.

Mining Fossil Fuels

What Fossil Fuels are mined?
How are they mined?

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Where are they mined?

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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.  Toothpick 
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Steps:

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Findings: What did you find out as a result of your mining?

Conclusion: