Fossil Fuel Experiment and Documentation

 

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

Definition of Fossil Fuels:
Fuels that are in or around earth that are limited and destroy the earth the more they used

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.   Gases

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. Drills 
2. Miners
3. Oil rigs
4. Tube

Where are they mined?

1. Ocean 
2. Mountains  
3. Australia 
4. Asia
5. Caves

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: cookie, plate, pencil, colours.

1.  Cookie
2.   Plate
3.   Pencil
4.  Colours

Steps:

1.   Write about the ecosystem and whats in them, that includes how humans use them
2.   Draw cookie and habitat
3.   Chip 10 (c) chips out of the cookie
4.   Flip the page and write whats on the page 
5.   Eat the cookie (necessary)

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?

How mining without putting the ground and other living things back can destroy the land and make it a useless waste land on earth, if there are not plants now ores and no animals what is it used for? nothing it's useless now, so destroying land for "riches" and having the ability to redo the land and not doing it is a really bad decision

Conclusion: Mining is a part of human evolution and used so we can advance as a race, not mining would destroy economy and building production. What I'm saying is that we need to start mining in more enclosed areas without wild life and vegetation (including human life duh)