Hurumanu-Fossils 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:

Fossil fuels is a very natural fuel such as the coal,crude oil or gas,formed in the geological past form the remains of living organisms like plants or animal in the earth.

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

1. For oil, they drill them very well into an underground reservoir, because when oil has been tapped and mud logger. 
2. For coal, they used a giant machine to remove coal form the ground, they used two methods because some mines are 1,000 feet deep.
3. For Natural Gas, they also used giant machine like the oil, there a large piece of drilling equipment and used to drill the dirt and through the soil and rocks 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 are some question below that you need to answer about to your 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 a mining on your habitat.
6.   After your done drawing you need to answer the question about how it change and what happen on the life of the living things that living on your habitat.

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?

Conclusion: 
 I really like doing this activity because I learn a lot of things  like when we are mining the cookie I felt bad that if the cookie broke my whole world spilt and I felt sad about that because if that happen the animals and the trees that lived in my forest will die because it will became dry and the animals will lost their habitat and they have anything left.I learn that mining things was really bad to our world.