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Define: Our challenge that we are trying to solve is how has the use of electricity and fossil fuels changed over time. We will figure out questions that are related to our challenge to make it easier to find a result and solution. To find out an answer we also need to find out if there have been changes to electricity and fossil fuels and how they work together. 

Discover:

1.  How do we use electricity and fossil fuels today?
2. What are some ways that we could decrease the use of electricity? 
3. What is electricity and fossil fuels? 
4. How can transportation effect the uses of fossil fuels? 
5. What are the significant changes that have occurred/ when was electricity discovered and introduced? 
6. How might electricity and the uses of fossil fuels change in the future? 
7. What are ways to decrease the uses of fossil fuels? 
8. How is electricity and fossil fuels linked? 

Dream: 

1. One of the things that we use fossil fuels for are gasoline. Gasoline is used basically used every day for transportation, cars, busses, trains, trucks and many other vehicles. Natural gases are also something that we use fossil fuels for. When you are using heating for your houses or your cars you are burning lots of fossil fuels and it is going into our air/environment. Electricity has so many uses that contribute to our daily lives, for example we use it for lighting, heating, cooling, operating appliances, computers and many other things and devices. Electricity is basically used every day now and it is hard to avoid it, because of the new devices that continue to be invented, so it is hard to stay away from. 
2. Since we use electricity so often, we should try to think of solutions to help decrease the use of it. Some things that you could do are installing compact fluorescent light bulbs because they produce as much light as an incandescent light bulb and it only uses 1/5 of the power that the incandescent ones use. If you live in a sunny area where you are exposed to lots of sunlight, it would be a good idea to switch to solar panels for your electricity source. They take in the sun’s energy during the day and never wastes any of its energy. One of the simplest ways that doesn’t take much effort is just turning off the lights when you are not using them or if you don’t need them. A simple solution is opening your blinds to let in sunlight, but if it is darker outside you could also just light a few candles. 
3. The definition of electricity is a form of energy resulting from charged particles, either statically or dynamically as a current. Fossil Fuels are a natural gas formed in the geological past from the remains of living organisms. 
4. There is so much nitrogen oxide that is released into the air because of burning fossil fuels, which are associated with transportation. The forming of smog and acid rain are a result of the nitrogen oxide that is released from the burning fossil fuels. Coal and oil are the more dangerous sources of fossil fuels, where natural gas is safer and produces less emissions. 
5. It is believed that the Greeks were the first to discover an electrical charge, which is static electricity. This discovery happened around 2,600 years ago, around 600 BC. There were then many books about electricity and many more experiments that were tested out about electricity and what it is and how it works. The modern days of electricity we the inventions of the telegraph, telephone, light bulb and then the radio and television. The uses of electricity have gone up a significant amount since the 1950’s. The main way of generating electricity that has increased the most is fossil fuels coal. In the 1900’s less than two percent uses fossil fuel coal for electricity, and since then it has grown about 30% more, which is quite a lot. 
6. In the future fossil fuels will still probably provide a reasonable amount of energy, about 60%, compared to what it is today, 85%. It is also believed that the patterns of fossil fuels will change as there will probably be less of coal and more gas, and they will also decrease the price of fossil fuels. The future of electricity is said to scale and will continue growing. It will have benefits to society, industry and will help reach climate goals. 
7. To reduce the use of fossil fuels, you can do a lot of the things that you can do to reduce electricity, like saving power and being more aware. You could also use renewable energy sources (wind and solar power) to reduce pollution that has to do with fossil fuels. 
8. Fossil fuel power plants burn fuels that generate steam to help turbines work, with produce electricity and this can generate electricity for really long periods of time. 

Deliver: 

Our challenge was finding out how electricity and fossil fuels have changed over time. By doing research we found out a lot of interesting information. Electricity is a form of energy resulting from charged particles, either statically or dynamically as a current. Fossil Fuels are a natural gas formed in the geological past from the remains of living organisms. The uses of electricity have gone up a significant amount since the 1950’s. The main way of generating electricity that has increased the most is fossil fuels coal. In the 1900’s less than two percent uses fossil fuel coal for electricity, and since then it has grown about 30% more. Some things that you could do are installing compact fluorescent light bulbs because they produce as much light as an incandescent light bulb and it only uses 1/5 of the power that the incandescent ones use. If you live in a sunny area where you are exposed to lots of sunlight, it would be a good idea to switch to solar panels for your electricity source. To reduce the use of fossil fuels, you can do a lot of the things that you can do to reduce electricity, like saving power and being more aware. You could also use renewable energy sources (wind and solar power) to reduce pollution that has to do with fossil fuels. There has been lost of awareness about climate change which has been a long-lasting effect of fossil fuels and electricity usage. To this we conclude that some of the biggest changes are technology and the invention of devices that impacted our lives and the use of fossil fuel coal for energy/ electricity. 

Debrief: 

How we came to our answer was we had to first thing or our challenge/ question that we had about electricity. The we had to think of questions that could help us answer our main challenge, and once we had the questions, we had to find the answers to them. After we had to reflect on out original challenge to see if we found out the solution and then we concluded our findings and our final answer.  

Sources: 

• https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/electricity/use-of-electricity.php 
• https://www.angieslist.com/articles/10-ways-reduce-your-home-s-power-use.htm 
• https://www.epa.gov/nutrientpollution/sources-and-solutions-fossil-fuels 
• http://scienceline.ucsb.edu/getkey.php?key=4026 
• https://www.weforum.org/projects/future-of-electricity 
• https://sciencing.com/ways-to-reduce-fossil-fuel-use-5221740.html