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Finding Fossil Fuels PowerPoint

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    Updated:  24 Nov 2025

Use an interactive ‘Finding Fossil Fuels’ PowerPoint to teach your students about how and where the Earth stores fossil fuels.

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    Editable:  PowerPoint, Google Slides

  • Pages

    Pages:  1 Page

  • Curriculum
  • Grade

    Grade:  4

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teaching resource

Finding Fossil Fuels PowerPoint

  • Updated

    Updated:  24 Nov 2025

Use an interactive ‘Finding Fossil Fuels’ PowerPoint to teach your students about how and where the Earth stores fossil fuels.

  • Editable

    Editable:  PowerPoint, Google Slides

  • Pages

    Pages:  1 Page

  • Curriculum
  • Grade

    Grade:  4

Use an interactive ‘Finding Fossil Fuels’ PowerPoint to teach your students about how and where the Earth stores fossil fuels.

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Teach fourth graders how Earth stores fossil fuels and how humans collect them with this engaging interactive Fossil Fuels PowerPoint presentation. Designed with helpful images, infographics, and kid-friendly explanations, this lesson slide deck is designed to help your students understand more about buried natural resources, where fossil fuels are found, the types of rocks that store them, and the methods used to extract them for everyday use.

Interactive Fossil Fuel Lesson Slides

Our Fossil Fuel Lesson Slide presentation guides students step-by-step through the formation, storage, and collection of fossil fuels. It includes vocabulary tasks, clickable checks for understanding, and various turn-and-talk prompts. Students will explore:

  • How sedimentary rocks form and why they can store oil, natural gas, and coal
  • Properties of rocks that allow for fossil fuel storage
  • How fossil fuels move and collect underground
  • How drilling rigs, pumps, and mining equipment help extract these resources

Download Your Finding Fossil Fuels Slide Deck Today

This ready-to-use Google Slides presentation is ideal for whole-class instruction and requires minimal preparation. 

This resource is available in both PowerPoint and editable Google Slides format.  To get your copy, click the dropdown arrow on the download button and choose your preferred file type.


This resource was created by Brittany Collins, a teacher in Indiana and Teach Starter collaborator.


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