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Soft Schools

Soft Schools: Earth Science Quizzes: Fossil Fuels

For Students 3rd - 8th
Assess your understanding of the types, locations and formation of fossil fuels with this interactive multiple choice quiz. Immediate feedback is available.
Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Biodiesels: Converting Oil Into Clean Fuel

For Students 9th - 10th
Experiment making biodiesel from different types of oil and determine which oils give the best result. This science fair project from Science Buddies, although in an abbreviated format compared to other Science Buddies experiments, gives...
Handout
BiologyWise

Biology Wise: A Brief Guide to the Steps of the Carbon Cycle

For Students 4th - 8th
Outlines the steps for the movement of carbon along the carbon cycle through photosynthesis, food chains, being dissolved into the ocean, the decomposition of organisms, fossil fuel formation, industrial use of fossil fuels, carbon...
Lesson Plan
Other

American Coal Foundation: Lesson Plan: Coal Formation

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
In this four-part instructional activity, students will conduct a simulation of the coal formation process and will show the ability to do scientific inquiry. For the final project, they will use their findings they have recorded on...
Lesson Plan
University of Texas at Austin

University of Texas: Human Environmental Interactions [Pdf]

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Inspired by Hemispheres' 2004 Teachers' Summer Institute, People and Place: Human-Geographic Relations, this curriculum unit was designed to address human adaptation to and modification of the environment. How have humans adjusted to...
Handout
Upper Canada District School Board

Tom Stretton's Chemistry Pages: The Chemistry of Natural Gas

For Students 9th - 10th
Through an online slide-show format, learn about the history and chemistry behind the resource, natural gas.
Article
Other

Accenture: Reinventing Oil and Gas for a New Energy Era

For Students 9th - 10th
With energy systems becoming decarbonized, digitalized, and demand-driven, this report explores how disruption is changing oil and gas. Discover how oil companies can respond by reinventing and redefining their purpose to drive the...
Handout
Energy for Sustainable Development

Esd Bulgaria: Kids & Energy: Coal

For Students 3rd - 5th
Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock composed mostly of carbon and hydrocarbons. It is the most abundant fossil fuel produced in the United States. Coal is also a nonrenewable energy source because it takes...
Lesson Plan
McREL International

Mc Rel: Whelmer #42 Learning Activity: Fire Sandwich

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
An easy to do activity if you have a Bunsen burner. The activity investigates combustion and heat conductivity. The activity is in lesson plan format that meets NSES standards.