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 fuel is a natural fuel such as coal, gas, and oil. It's the sources that you get or were formed underground from the plants and animals remains from millions of years ago.

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 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? Oil, Coal and Natural Gas
How are they mined?

1.  For oils, they drill wells and when the oil has been tapped, the mudlogger will note its presence.
2. For coal, they use giant machines to dig or remove coal from the ground.
3. For natural gas, they use a type of machines to dig underground rock formations.


Where are they mined?

1. Oil - Saudi Arabia, Russia, US, Iran, Australia and China.
2. Coal - Every state of Australia mainly in Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria.
3. Natural Gas - Iran, Russia and Qatar (Deep underground)

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.  Toothpick 
2.   Plate
3.   Chocolate Chip Cookie

Steps:

1.   First, get all the materials you need
2.   Carefully mine the chocolate chip cookie using a toothpick, you need to get as much chocolate chips as you can and then you're done
3.  Once you have drawn your cookies you must take 2 pictures and upload them to your blog.

Findings: What did you find out as a result of your mining? The cookie is hard to mine because it's fragile, easy to break, and it's also small and some of the chocolate chips were like stuck to the cookie. It's also a cookie, it's food and you don't usually mine a cookie.

Conclusion: 
I found out that Fossil fuel is a natural fuel such as coal, gas, and oil. It's the sources that you get or were formed underground from the plants and animals remains from millions of years ago. I've learnt a lot of stuff about our fossil fuels. 

These are the picture of what the cookie looked like before mining it and its habitat before it was destroyed

This is what it looks like now after mining the cookie and after destroying its habitat