7. Resources for teachers
National Curriculum
The information in this theme should help students study for the 'Medicine Through Time' component of their History GCSE. For teachers, this theme provides ideas, background information and digitised archive sources that can be integrated into their teaching.
Suggested approaches to the information
- As part of a small research project, students could be asked to undertake their own research in to a disease, such as Leprosy, using information from the internet and library. The research could then be presented in the form of a poster or even a webpage.
Some of the questions that could be posed, include:
- What caused people to be healthy or unhealthy?
- What ideas did people have about causes and treatment of illness and injuries?
- How far did new ideas and treatments affect the majority of the population?
- Source activity [Opens in a new window]: use this source based activity in its entirety, or cherry pick the bits that are suitable for your class.
- Timeline activity [Opens in a new window]: having worked through the theme, this timeline template can be used to create a timeline of 'Infection through time'. A good way of revising the theme.
- Interactive medical quiz [Opens in a new window]: Now you have read through the Infection through time theme, test yourself by taking this interactive crossword. Though before you take the quiz, make sure you have read the Infection through time theme thoroughly.
- Printer friendly medical quiz [Opens in a new window]: Now you have read through the Infection through time theme, test yourself by taking this printer friendly crossword. Though before you take the quiz, make sure you have read the Infection through time theme thoroughly.
(WARNING in order to print this properly, you will need to set the print options in your browser correctly. For example, in Internet Explorer, you will need to check the option "Print background colour and images". To do this right click your internet explorer icon and select properties . Click on the advance tab and then scroll down to printing and click on "Print background colour and images".)
- Medical quiz answers [Opens in a new window]: Once you have completed the crossword puzzle, take a look at the answers to find out how many you got right in our printable version.
- Glossary [Opens in a new window]: a list of useful definitions
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