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Y7 Fossil fuels
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How are fossil fuels made?
Aims: That fuels are substances which burn to release energy; that coal oil and natural gas are fossil fuels that are formed from organic and non-renewable materials over millions of years. To utilise speaking and listening skills.
Outcomes: Students should be able to describe that fossil fuels are made from the decay of living material over a period of millions of years. They should be able to state differences between modes of formation and some should appreciate the link of natural gas with both coal and oil. They should be able to state that fuels are a source of energy which is released by burning the fuel. They should have produced a poster describing the formation of coal or oil or both.
Needs: Book(s) containing information about the formation of fossil fuels, sugar paper, pritt, scissors
Assessment: Through questioning orally, the fossil fuel questionnaire and observation of information on the posters.
Ask students what they understand by the word fuel. Students will hopefully quote some fuels and their uses. Point out the link that we tend to burn fuels to obtain energy from them. Remember to include food - fuel for our bodies. (5 min)
Find out if students know what a fossil fuel is. Find out if they know how the 3 fossil fuels were formed. Distribute the book(s) with formation of fossil fuels information. Students spend 5 min reading and memorising the information. One student then explains to the other how coal was formed, the listener has the book open and agrees or disagrees so that between them, they develop an understanding. They then swap round, the listener becomes the speaker, explaining how oil is formed. (10 min).
Round front, Q/A session to reinforce and check learning. Set poster challenge - a poster that is active in challenging the readers, needs planning, organising etc.
This then runs for the rest of this lesson and for next lesson as well. Give questionnaire out towards end of the second lesson, students hand it in at the end for marking.
Set homework: formation of oil cut and stick sheet.
Closing activity - Students say one thing they have learnt in the lesson.
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