Exploring inequalities: Sao Paulo (secondary)

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This lesson plans introduces Marcelo, a YouTuber in Brazil streaming educational content to the masses. It explores his city and how it is deeply unequal. This lesson is most suitable for KS3 and above but could be adapted for an upper primary context. **Lyfta core themes:** Community & Citizenship, Culture & Identity, Equality & Human Rights, Health & Wellbeing, Learning & Growth, Natural Environment, Technology & Engineering. **Lyfta core skills and values**: Active Citizenship & Political Awareness, Communication, Coping Methods, Creativity & Innovation, Critical Thinking, Design Thinking, Digital Literacy, Empathy & Understanding Others, Entrepreneurship, Financial Literacy, Human Rights, Information Retrieval, Intercultural Competence, Lifelong Learning, Perspective Taking, Resilience & Perseverance. **SDGs:** **National Curriculum objectives:** KS3 Geography - extend locational knowledge and deepen their spatial awareness of the world’s countries using maps of the world (countries and major cities) - Understand 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 and environments. KS4 Geography (consult exam board for spec) Human geography: processes and change Opportunity to explore Marcelo’s context of the megacity Sao Paulo, the causes and effects of rapid urbanisation in different parts of the world with varying characteristics of economic and social development. For at least one major city in an economically advanced country, and one major city in a poorer country or recently emerging economy, examine ways of life and contemporary challenges arising from and influencing urban change. Global economic development issues – causes and consequences of uneven development at global level as the background for considering the changing context of population, economy and society and of technological and political development in at least one poorer country or one that is within a newly emerging economy. KS3 PSHE L22. the benefits and positive use of social media, including how it can offer opportunities to engage with a wide variety of views on different issues. KS4 PSHE L22. that there are positive and safe ways to create and share content online and the opportunities this offers.