Link Ethiopia’s collection of FREE curriculum focused teaching resources brings Ethiopia and Africa to life, and is a great way to introduce some global learning into your school classroom!
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0. Introducing Ethiopia
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Ethiopia has a unique and enduring culture with a fantastic range of relatively unexplored landscapes. This presentation will introduce your students to the wonderful country of Ethiopia, looking at where it is, what it looks like, who lives there and what other things you can find there.
- Introducing Ethiopia – Lesson Plan KS1-2
- Introducing Ethiopia – Presentation KS1-2
- Introducing Ethiopia – Presentation Notes KS1-2
- Introducing Ethiopia – Quiz Answer Sheet KS1-2
- Introducing Ethiopia – Quiz KS1-2
- Introducing Ethiopia – Teaching Objectives KS1-2
- Introducing Ethiopia – A Diverse Country – Pictures KS3-4
- Introducing Ethiopia – A Diverse Country – Text KS3-4
- Introducing Ethiopia – Development Compass Rose KS3-4
- Introducing Ethiopia – Geography and Climate KS3-4
- Introducing Ethiopia – Government and Politics KS3-4
- Introducing Ethiopia – History KS3-4
- Introducing Ethiopia – Lesson Plan KS3-4
- Introducing Ethiopia – People and Culture KS3-4
- Introducing Ethiopia KS1-2 (all files)
- Introducing Ethiopia KS3-4 (all files)
1. How I feel about school
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Students think about what they like and dislike about going to school and swap this information with students at their link school. Use the responses to discuss similarities and differences.
Early Years: You might like to have similar discussions with your students as outlined in the lesson plan for KS1/2 students but just simplify the shared learning activity by asking students to draw a picture of their favourite activity.
- How I feel about school – Lesson Plan (KS1/Lower KS2) - Topic for exchange
- Worksheet (KS1/Lower KS2) - How I feel about school
- Worksheet (Early Years) - How I feel about school
- Early Years How I feel about School (all files combined)
- KS1/KS2 How I feel about School (all files combined)
2. Recipe Swap
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The Recipe Swap provides investigative activities based on food preparation and the diversity of food and cooking from another culture. Students will create a display featuring a recipe for a typical English dish illustrating the cooking process with drawings and diagrams. After recipes have been exchanged with your link school the students can then experiment with cooking Ethiopian food and discussing any unsual ingrediants or cooking methods.
2019 Nobel Peace Prize
Pupils learn about the Nobel Peace Prize, why it is given and who it is given to, using the 2019 winner (Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali) as a case study. Pupils then explore wider themes around peace and conflict resolution.
3. Health Activities
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This section provides several Topic for Exchange activities related to Health.
- Students design blank posters with health slogans on them.
Posters are then swapped with your link school, illustrated and displayed. - Students investigate what constitutes a healthy diet and keep a food diary. Use this information to create a display for your link school, which can be swapped and investigated.
- As part of a healthy lifestyle, students try out a traditional Ethiopian sport called ‘Genna’, whilst Ethiopian pupils learn how to play Touch Rugby.
- Activities (KS1/KS2) - Poster design, food diary, sports
- Students design blank posters with health slogans on them.
4. Our Local Environment
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This resource allows students to investigate their local environment and learn about the plants and animals that live there. After considering their response to the environment, how it makes them feel and why it is important to look after it, they can then create a display about their local environment and fill in an ‘exchange sheet’ in order to share ideas with students at their link school.
5. Aspirations and the Olympics
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This resource encourages students to share information about their personal aspirations and their hopes for the world. Looking at the Olympic values (displayed in the worksheet), they can decide which one would be most important in order to achieve their personal goals. Work can then be swapped with your link school and used for the basis of a discussion exploring similarities and differences and the significance of Olympic values in different cultures.
A contrasting locality overseas – Gondar
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This resource introduces a distant locality through housing, cooking and going to school. It is based on Gondar, a busy town in Ethiopia. It focuses on knowledge and understanding of Ethiopian life, similarities and differences between Gondar and the children’s locality and the effects of change in a less developed country. It is picture and discussion-based and can be differentiated by outcome for different age groups.
- Gondar – Lesson Plan - A contrasting locality overseas
- Session 1 Gondar – Presentation - Where is Gondar?
- Session 2 Gondar – Presentation - Welcome to Gondar
- Session 3 Gondar – Presentation - School in Gondar
- Session 1-3 Gondar Worksheets
- Session 4 Injera Recipe
- Session 4 Worksheet
- A Contrasting Local Overseas – Gondar
A day in the Life of an Ethiopian Child
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This presentation explores a day in the life of an Ethiopian girl, Tesfanish. The activity linked to this, encourages students to compare their lives to Tesfanish’s.
- day in the life of Tesfanish – Presentation (KS1/KS2)
- A day in the life of Tesfanish – Activity (KS1/KS2) - Exploring similarities and differences
- A day in the Life of an Ethiopian Child (all files combined)
A Healthy Diet
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Exploring healthy eating and diversity, students investigate what constitutes a healthy diet and then investigate their own diet by keeping a food diary. Using this information, a display for your link school can be created, then swapped and discussed.
