Module 5 - Renewable and Non-renewable Resources (Grade 5 Earth and Space Science)
Explore the videos and complete the worksheets in your Arctic journal. When you are finished you will create a powerpoint,poster, model or video from one area which will highlight the knowledge you have gained. The detailed information for your final project is in your Arctic journal.
Goals
Grade 5 students will -
Grade 5 students will -
a. classify Arctic and BC resources as renewable or non-renewable and explain ways in which the resources are used.
Brainpop Natural Resources - see Ms. Palmer for the password. This movie explains what natural resources are, how we use them and the difference between renewable and nonrenewable resources.
1. Watch the movie 2. When you are finished complete either the Hard or Easy quiz found in your Arctic journal (finish both and earn a spin for doing "More than Expected".) |
b. identify methods of extracting or harvesting and processing resources
Just how do we get resources from their natural state into usable form? Choose one nonrenewable resource and one renewable resource from the choices below to explore in detail.
Just how do we get resources from their natural state into usable form? Choose one nonrenewable resource and one renewable resource from the choices below to explore in detail.
Fossil Fuel Energy (Nonrenewable)
Coal, gas and oil are mined in northeastern British Columbia and many areas of the Arctic. 1. Learn about Fossil Fuels from EcoKids. 2. Take the energy quiz. 3. Complete the worksheet in your Arctic journal. Mining and Minerals (Nonrenewable) Mining is important in both the Arctic and British Columbia. Minerals mined include copper, silver, molybdenum and others. 1. This Drill and Blast video illustrated the steps involved in making a large tunnel for mining underground. 2. Iron ore mining takes place at Labrador City in the southern Arctic. This video shows the process of extracting, processing and shipping iron ore. Be sure to click on all six steps to watch the real photos and videos. 3. Copper mining takes place at a number of sites in British Columbia, for example the new Copper Mountain mine. Nunavut also has rich copper deposits. From Ore to More shows copper processing at a mine in Utah but is similar to production in BC. |
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Fishing (Renewable)
Although the number of people employed has decreased fishing is still a very important industry in BC. 1. Watch the video produced by the captain of a fishing boat catching salmon off Vancouver Island last November. 2. Fish are sold fresh or frozen either directly to stores or to processing plants. Watch this video on a small cannery in Nanaimo. They pack the salmon into cans before shipping to stores. |
c. show ways in which Aboriginal peoples take care of the land and the resources.
3. Watch the video on sustainable resource use in the Arctic
d. describe potential environmental impacts of using the Arctic and BC's living and nonliving resources
e. determine how personal choices and actions have environmental consequences
f. learn more about how to be energy efficient