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 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 Gasses

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. Digging
2. Scraping
3. Exposing buried resources
4. Drilling

Where are they mined?

1. America
2. Russia
3. China 
4. Australia 
5. India

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.  Tooth Pick  
4.  Paper 

Steps:

1.  Get your paper 
2.  Get a cookie 
3.  Use the toothpick to pick out the chocolate chips in the cookie. 
4.  Draw any type of habitat before and after mining.

Once you have drawn your cookies you must take 2 pictures and upload them to your blog.

Findings: I found out that we actually caused a lot of damage and the cookie ended up breaking.

Conclusion: In the end I realised that the cookie in the end is how the habitat will look after people mine and rummage through it. The similarity between how a damaged habitat and the cookie was scary, this means people need to stop damaging other species habitats and killing our species.