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(NASA Earth Observatory, 2008)

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(Solidarity walk for Australia's first solar thermal power station, 2015)

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(Samuel H. Coleman Memorial Library, 2015)

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(Scientific American,2015)

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The over view of this unit on fossil fuels will teach students about fossil fuels. The students will touch on renewable energy sources. The students will being the unit learning directly what fossil fuels are, that they are not renewable in human life time. Students will learn the importance of conserving fossil fuels and using renewable energy.

Students will begin the week breaking down the definition of fossil fuel. Students will then learn where fossil fuel comes from and learn about some ways that we retrieve fossil fuel. Students will then calculate their own footprint based on their lifestyle. Students will also do an activity to emphasize how quickly fossil fuels can become scarce. Students will end the week writing a short persuasive speech encouraging their audience to lower their own carbon footprint based on the results they received when taking the quiz. The overall lesson of the week will be for students to learn the consequences of high carbon emission levels has on our planet and why there needs to be a change. Starting with themselves and what they can do to make a difference.

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Day 5: How To Change Our Carbon Footprint

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Day 5: How To Change Our Carbon Footprint

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Students will be writing a short speech to an audience (the class and teacher) persuading the audience to lower their carbon footprint.

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For todays activity students will paired with a partner. Each set of partners will be given a plastic bag with 90 black beads to represent the fossil fuels we use on everyday basis and 10 white beads to represent renewable energy. Each partner will take turns grabbing a handful of 10 beads at a time, students will count how many white beads they grabbed and how many black bead they grabbed. The students will keep the black beads of to the side but place the white beads back int the bag since white beads represent renewable energy sources. The lesson for students will be for them to see fossil fuels aren't forever and how quickly they can become scarce. The goal for this day will be for students to be able to see the reality of fossil fuels running out.

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Using this carbon footprint calculator (http://www.footprintnetwork.org/en/index.php/GFN/page/calculators/) will calculate their own carbon footprint. Students are able calculate their own footprint based of what they use in their home everyday, what they use for transportation, if they recycle, how much meat is in their diet and more. The goal of this day will be for students identify ways they use fossil fuels in their everyday life.

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“There are three major forms of fossil fuels: coal, oil and natural gas. All three were formed many hundreds of millions of years ago before the time of the dinosaurs – hence the name fossil fuels” (California Energy Commission, 2012).

This day of the unit the focus will be on how we retrieve fossil fuels in the United States. There will be a main focus that fossil fuel comes from a previous life time and we have to go through the ground in order to retrieve fossil fuels. Students will also learn about fracking and also learn the dangers of fracking, students will also watch a video about fracking.

The goal of this day will be for students to be able to know where fossil fuels come from and how we get them.

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fossil fuel
"A hydrocarbon deposit, such as petroleum, coal, or natural gas,derived  from the accumulated remains of ancient plants and animals and used as fuel."

(The American Heritage® Science Dictionary 2002)

The first day of the the unit we will focus on breaking down the definitions of fossil fuels. What exactly a fossil fuel is, so that students have a background and know why they are important to us as humans in our everyday systems. The goal of this day will be to get a good grasp on what fossil fuels are.

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Why Learning About Fossil Fuels Is Important 

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Why Learning About Fossil Fuels Is Important 

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Many people don’t realize how high their own carbon footprint can be. If many lived the high-end lifestyle, glamorous cares, private jets we would be out of fossil fuels in a few years. The United States alone is one of the countries with a very high carbon footprint. What’s engaging about this topic is that fossil fuels are not going to be forever, therefore there needs to be a change. Fossil fuels can possibly be found again but not made again in a human lifetime. Conserving fossil fuels and being sustainable, like finding renewable energy sources is important to consider as a citizen of the world. One because we are a citizen of the world, which is also home to 7 billion other people, two we need to consider how much non renewable resources we are using everyday and think about how we can be sustainable and find different energy sources before we run out of what we do have.

Carbon emissions in the United States matters to students because they are the future generation of the earth. If change doesn’t happen soon in how we live we will be out of fossil fuels before we know it for our own lifetime. Renewable energy is also a lot more popular than it was 10-20 years ago, it is important for students now to learn how to be sustainable and use renewable energy or use it to some extent. It also is important for student to learn about fossil fuels and the impact they have on our earth by us using them.

Students can use systems thinking to think about how carbon emissions can affect other systems.  If one population overuses fossil fuels it will affect another and so on.  Students can also use values thinking by looking at their own values in ways they live everyday and how much fossil fuels they use versus what they could possibly cut down on because it doesn’t have high values in their life. Students can consider what they absolutely need to survive through fossil fuels, rather than what they could conserve on. Fossil fuels and carbon emissions can relate to science and math because we can calculate carbon emissions individually, a state, country or even the world. It can relate to history by learning about the history of fossil fuels, why and how we started using them. It can relate to science in many ways from how we can find other resources for energy rather than using non-renewable resources, or even testing different renewable energy or doing a project on fossil fuels.