LAMP Topic Brief 1: Fuels

This topic brief was published as part of the ASE’s LAMP Project. The brief was developed for third year pupils following a [link=//stem.org.uk/cxhk]Nuffield Secondary Science[/link] course. It was later trialled in a variety of secondary schools with students of average and below average ability in the 13 to 16 age range.

[b]Aims[/b]
1. To develop an understanding of the fundamentals of health and the factors which affect it.
2. To encourage the desire and ability of students to search for information in books and to browse through books.
3. To enable a working relationship to develop between students and teacher
4. To encourage students to work together constructively exchanging experiences and deyeloping ideas.
5. To provide an opportunity for discussion of some social health problems: venereal diseases, smoking, alcohol and drugs.

[b]Contents[/b]
1. Air and burning
2. What is a fuel?
3. What makes a good fuel?
4. What makes the best fuels?
5. Coal
6. Who uses coal?
7. How much pollution does coal cause?
8. Other fuels from coal
9. Chemicals from coal
10. Petroleum
11. Getting oil out
12. North Sea oil and gas
13. Oil companies
14. Distillation of oil