Residents in Bangkok are feeling their homes due to flooding.Year 8 - you are studying about Thailand at the moment, please can you read and find out what is happening at the moment.
Showing posts with label Year 8. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Year 8. Show all posts
Thursday, 10 June 2010
1GOAL
All students are getting involved with the 1GOAL campaign over the next few weeks.
Please take some time to go check out:
It is linked with the millennium development goals and making sure that all children have access to an education. A matter that I support and hope the girls will join in supporting with me.
Tomorrow I am launching a competition.
Design a section of a supporter scarf using A4 paper (landscape) and show why education is important and why we should aim for all kids to go to school in the world. I am aiming to collect as many signatures as possible - friends and family, please get involved!!!!! Please submit your sections of the scarf to me by the 9th July and on the 12th I will announce winners and send the scarf off to parliament. 1GOAL is in conjunction with the Football Worldcup and you will see it in the press over the next 4 weeks!
Please get involved!
Miss Udy
Wednesday, 10 June 2009
Tube Stikes...
Have they affected you or your family? Geography really is around us... surfing the internet this evening I stumbled across another map that shows who stayed at home, who cycled or walked to work instead and who used public transport.
As year 8 and 9 are well aware maps are an important aspect of Geography, year 7 are beginning to use thier map reading skills more and more!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/talking_point/8092188.stm
Go check it out, see if you recognise anyone in the photos!
Miss Udy
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
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
Wednesday, 6 May 2009
Year 8 - London 2012
Lesson 2!
This is Lesson 2 (and it ran into a 3rd lesson) which was about being able to Imagine place.
http://www.geographyteachingtoday.org.uk/ks3-resources/resource/london-2012/
This is where the scheme of work comes from, I have slightly adapted it and created this second PowerPoint to go along with the scheme.
Again, we used interactive resources and the London 2012 website to gain further information.
The homework for last week for year 8 and 9 was to write a 200 newsround style report about the Olympic Games. If possible it needed to include the advatages and disadvantages.
Miss Udy
This is Lesson 2 (and it ran into a 3rd lesson) which was about being able to Imagine place.
http://www.geographyteachingtoday.org.uk/ks3-resources/resource/london-2012/
This is where the scheme of work comes from, I have slightly adapted it and created this second PowerPoint to go along with the scheme.
Imagining Place, London 2012
View more presentations from catherine.udy.
Again, we used interactive resources and the London 2012 website to gain further information.
The homework for last week for year 8 and 9 was to write a 200 newsround style report about the Olympic Games. If possible it needed to include the advatages and disadvantages.
Miss Udy
Monday, 30 March 2009
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!
And one of the worksheets:
Miss Udy
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
View more presentations from catherine.udy.
And one of the worksheets:
Food Network
View more documents from catherine.udy.
Miss Udy
Wednesday, 25 March 2009
Google Street View
Good afternoon,
Sorry it has been so long since my last post - things seem to all come in one go! I finally found 5 minutes to sit down and write!
Last Thursday Google Street View shot into the news... I have to say I am a fan! I did spend an hour looking at my nans house, my house (where my housemate is in the window when the pic was taken!), my best friends house (her daughter was throwing a trantrum on the street!) and generally looking to see what was on there!
Where's Wally? A favourite childrens book even managed to get a Wally somewhere in London!
As well as a marriage proposal, two kinghts fighting, some breaking into a house and so on!
Google’s camera cars covered more than 22,369 miles of UK roads in their effort to map towns and major cities, including London, Liverpool, Birmingham, Manchester and Oxford. Already, web users have been scouring the maps to find quirky or unusual sights, including a broken-down Google car being photographed by another camera car, and Banksy graffiti.
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Enjoy!
Miss Udy
Sorry it has been so long since my last post - things seem to all come in one go! I finally found 5 minutes to sit down and write!
Last Thursday Google Street View shot into the news... I have to say I am a fan! I did spend an hour looking at my nans house, my house (where my housemate is in the window when the pic was taken!), my best friends house (her daughter was throwing a trantrum on the street!) and generally looking to see what was on there!
Where's Wally? A favourite childrens book even managed to get a Wally somewhere in London!
As well as a marriage proposal, two kinghts fighting, some breaking into a house and so on!
Google’s camera cars covered more than 22,369 miles of UK roads in their effort to map towns and major cities, including London, Liverpool, Birmingham, Manchester and Oxford. Already, web users have been scouring the maps to find quirky or unusual sights, including a broken-down Google car being photographed by another camera car, and Banksy graffiti.
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Enjoy!
Miss Udy
Friday, 6 March 2009
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
Miss Udy
Wednesday, 4 March 2009
Fieldwork at BEECHE
Good evening!
In the walled garden,
The groups then set about making thier advert campagins! They all worked fantastically and the groups produced some excellent results!See below!
So after a busy day yesterday with year 9 options I am finally getting around to uploading some images!
On Tuesday, myself and two year 8 pupils visited BEECHE (Bromley Environmental Education Centre at High Elms) with other schools from the Bromley area and completed various different activities with the BEECHE staff, RGS staff and the Bromley Geography network staff. We have been working together to try and change the opinion of Geography fieldwork and this will have a huge impact on how we run fieldwork and the type of activities we do. Tilly and Shelly (and all the students from the other schools) really enjoyed the day and will be creating a post soon giving you their view on the day!
We arrived at 9.30 to be met with biscuits and juice and we quickly moved onto some Geography Bingo! The students quickly got involved and really seemed to enjoy it! The groups were introduced to their task and we went outside and started collecting materials for our Journey string, and taking photos of different areas. Some of the shots were amazing, particulary this one by Tilly!
When we got back the students brought together a list of words that came to mind when they were standing out side. With these words the groups came up with Haiku's. Again, the standard was brilliant, the groups really were creative!
The two following Haiku's were by the groups that Tilly and Shelly were in:
Freedom Calm Tranqui,
Tweet tweet birds flying free, calm,
Feathers floating pray,
(Shelly, Steven, Georgina, Roshni)
In the walled garden,
Happy and free apple tree,
All's quiet in spring.
(Lianne, Robert, Jamie, Tilly, Daragh)
Each group chose a favourite photo and then went back outside to start making thier perfume pot's! Making a natural perfume that would represent their favourite place! Each student also used natural materials to make a nature pallet and had to stand quietly listening for noise and making a sound map.
The groups then set about making thier advert campagins! They all worked fantastically and the groups produced some excellent results!See below!
We then broke for lunch, yummy sandwiches and cake provided by BEECHE! Once we had full tummies and had our tea we moved onto lookat the biodiversity of the large pond within the grounds of High Elms. The students were shown how to take samples from the pond and off we trundled with our nets, trays and buckets! Oh, and the all important identification sheets!
Each group got stuck in, Tilly suprised me by going to a seperate pond to look on her own! She had a huge smile on her face all afternoon!
We even found Leeches, funny wood animals and ducks!
All the students got really involved and seemed to enjoy being outside!
Tilly and Shelly didn't stop talking the whole way home and we have been invited back to do more work with the RGS and the Bromley Geography network!
RGS and the BGN will be eventually posting up images and details of what we did, as soon as I know they have done it, I shall post a link to it! The work that we are doing is really exiciting and I (and hopefully Tilly, Shelly and Sarah - who couldn't make it sadly) are looking forward to working more on this fieldwork project!
I could have written for hours, so I shall stop now before you get bored! If you want to know more please leave a comment!
Miss Udy
Tuesday, 3 March 2009
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
This is also a youtube clip of the development of mobile phones! Amazing how they have changed!!!!!! The girls loved this clip!
Many thanks
Miss Udy
This is also a youtube clip of the development of mobile phones! Amazing how they have changed!!!!!! The girls loved this clip!
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