City limits: Addis Ababa

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This lesson introduces Asalif, who lives in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. It is part of the Ethiopian Treasures storyworld and explores land use, urban and suburban development of an African capital city. **You will need to display the Development Compass Rose in a visible place, have handouts or have students open the links on their devices.** It is most suitable for KS3 but could also be used in KS2 or KS4 with your amendments. **Lyfta Core themes:** Community and Citizenship, Equality and Human Rights, Health and Wellbeing, Learning and Growth, Natural Environment, Professions and Entrepreneurship, Relationships, Technology and Engineering. **Lyfta Core Skills and Values:** Active Citizenship & Political Awareness, Adaptability & Flexibility, Coping Methods, Creativity & Innovation, Critical Thinking, Design Thinking, Empathy & developing multiple perspectives, Entrepreneurship, Environment & Sustainability, Human Rights, Information Retrieval, Lifelong Learning, Resilience & Perseverance, Resourcefulness & Learning from Failure, Problem-Solving. **SDGs:**1, 9, 10, 11 and 15. **National Curriculum Objectives:** KS3 Geography Locational knowledge: ▪ extend their locational knowledge and deepen their spatial awareness of the world’s countries using maps of the world to focus on Africa… focusing on their environmental regions, key physical and human characteristics, countries and major cities Place Knowledge ▪ understand geographical similarities, differences and links between places through the study of human and physical geography of a region within Africa. Human and physical geography: - human geography relating to: population and urbanisation; international development; economic activity; and the use of natural resources. - understand how human (and physical) processes interact to influence, and change landscapes, environments and the climate Geographical skills and fieldwork - build on their knowledge of globes, maps and atlases and apply and develop this knowledge routinely in the classroom and in the field - interpret photographs.