Fossil Fuels

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

Definition of Fossil Fuels:
You can find fossil fuels underground and in the ocean. The 3 departments of fossil fuels are things like oil, gas and coal. Fossil fuels can be solid's, liquid's and gases.

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.  Gas
3.  Oil

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. Drilling method can help extract liquid and or gases that can be forced to the surface. 
2. Mining is used to extract solid fossil fuels such as coal by digging, scraping or other wise exposing buried resources.  

Where are they mined?

1. You can find fossil fuels around the surface of the Earths crust. 
2. Deep within the Earth through underground mining.

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.  Plate 
3.  Pencil
4.  Sheet of paper 
5. Tooth pick

Steps:

1. Get materials.
2. Draw your Cookie before hand.
3. Draw your habitat. 
4. Answer the questions below.
5. Mine your Cookie.
6. Draw the after version of your Cookie.
7. Draw the after version of your habitat.
8. Answer the questions below.
9. EAT THE COOKIE!

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?
A lot of my cookie got destroyed and it was a mess.

Conclusion: Don't mine in the ground because it will be a big mistake.