Movies cancelled!

Oh dear! Unfortunately it seems the movies placed on the site over Easter didn't download properly. If you want to get your movie, see Mr Burdett at school - bring a disc and I will give you the files you need.

Sorry!

Year 8 go to Hollywood!

...or at least become film makers in Geography at the moment.

Mr Burdett's groups have been making movies using Windows Movie Maker, all about the Mozambique floods in February and March 2000. At the moment we are still uploading them to the internet, and a link will be posted here as soon as that is complete.

In the meantime, if you want to have a go at making your own movie, you can follow some step by step instructions that are available for download at mrburdett.4shared.com - look in the 'Year 8 movies and instructions' folder for the document. It might be a bit fiddly to start with, but you'll soon get the hang of it - Year 8 certainly did! (NB. Most computers already have Movie Maker but it doesn't appear in the programme file menu. To make it work on your computer at home, go to 'Start' in the bottom left corner of the screen, then click 'Search' and type in 'Movie Maker' - normally you will then get a window with the Movie Maker icon in it, and you just double click to open it up.)

Have fun!

Brazilian food and drink

Some Year 8 groups are finding out about food in Brazil. This information will help you to complete your work in class:

In Brazil, churrasco refers mainly to all of the meat cooked on the "churrasqueira", an oven with supports for spits or skewers, where the meat is put on.
Caruru is Brazilian food made from okra, onion, shrimp, palm oil and toasted nuts (peanuts and/or cashews).
Vatapá is Brazilian food made from bread, shrimp, coconut milk, palm oil and nuts (peanuts and/or cashews) mashed into a creamy paste.
In a real feijoada, every part of the pig is thrown into the pan. But the sight of the pig's ear, tail or snout floating in the feijoada will upset some people, so often only the best parts of the pig.
Guaraná is used as an ingredient in soft drinks and energy drinks and separately as a dietary supplement to promote health and weight loss.

Great site for all ages!

We continually search the web for the best geographical resources around. You can see some great websites by following the links down the right hand side but we thought you might like to see this one. games4geog is a site dedicated to making Geography fun. All the games can be played in your browser window so there is no software to download.
Have fun!
www.games4geog.com

Hola Brasil!

Some Year 8 groups are doing a group project on Brazil. Have you tried using these websites to find information? Click on them to go straight to the website:

• The Brazil Embassy in London


• Wikipedia


• Lonely Planet (travel guide)


• Brazilian tourism


• Food and drink (you can't make the alcholic ones though!)


• The regions of Brazil


• What the BBC has to say about Brazil


• More about food and drink


• More on the regions of Brazil from the Brazilian Embassy in London


• And even more on the regions!


• Amazon Rainforest


• Living in the poor areas of cities


• More on the poor areas of cities (be careful - some of this information isn't about Brazil)

If you have any more suggestions for useful websites, tell your teacher and ask them to pass them to Mr Burdett for adding to this list.