Blood, Sweat and Takeaways....

Year 8 will be familiar with the above slogan.... for the rest of you - blood, sweat and t-shirts may be familiar!

Last term we studied the Geography of my stuff - we looked at both food and clothes.

The 4 programme series of blood, sweat and takeaways was once again held with 6 young British people from across the country with varying opinions on cheap food and the food industry.

We are spoilt for choice, and I wonder how many of you visit the chicken and chip shop on your way home, or how many of you love prawns, or how many times a week we all eat rice that may have come from south-east Asia?

This programme shows the 6 youngsters catch, harvest and process food products we take advantage of every week. Tuna, Prawns, Rice and Chicken industries are highlighted, but we know this is only a small proportion. The 6 yougsters eat, sleep and live with the food workers from Indonesia and Thailand and experience the real life these people live. The average wage is around £3 per day. Could you survive on that?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00l2gww/Blood_Sweat_and_Takeaways_Chicken/

You can catch them on the BBC iPlayer for another 7 days.... my advice.. go check it out!

Miss Udy

Retail and Food Networks

Where does our food come from, how far has it travelled and what kind of shops do we buy different things in is the topic for the week!

Last week we were looking at Blood, Sweat and T-Shirts and Modern Day Slavery! Some of your produced some fabulous presentations and posters and even astounded your history teacher by telling her about what you have been doing in Geography! Keep up the hard work... keep your eyes on it - I will be posting one of the good presentations up on here!

For now, here is this weeks powerpoint!

Types Of Retailing

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And one of the worksheets:

Food Network

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Miss Udy

Year 8 homework - Due the next lesson I see you!

Complete the wordsearch (how easy!) But, you then have to use at least 7 of the words from with in the wordsearch to write about why products are now cheaper than they used to be. Use information from your lessons to supplement it and extra research will be rewarded!

Miss Udy

Why can people by more stuff than they used to?

Hi! So this is the first of many hopefully!!!!! I finally, ater 2 hours worked out how to do this! Very complicated but I know now! So this is a powerpoint from my current year 8 scheme of work called The Geography of my stuff. This is a scheme of work from: http://www.geographyteachingtoday.org.uk/ks3-resources/resource/the-geography-of-my-stuff/ . I used information/resources from there to create the powerpoint so I extend many thanks to RGS-IBG and the GA! Awesome, usable schemes! Any of my year 8's who missed the work please view the powerpoint!

Many thanks

Miss Udy

Why can people by more stuff than they used to?

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This is also a youtube clip of the development of mobile phones! Amazing how they have changed!!!!!! The girls loved this clip!