Year 9 Health and disease pre-GCSE prep unit- full set of lessons

A powerpoint with a full set of lessons for a pre-GCSE unit preparing year 9 students for GCSE. Recapping content from KS3 and overlapping with GCSE content. Contains all the tasks and worksheets as slides at the end of each lesson slide sequence. Links to experiments and videos etc within the PPT.

Lesson order:
What do we mean by health and disease- communicable and non-communicable disease- how are diseases spread (agar, UV, body defences) How do our bodies defend against disease and how can we protect against the spread of disease?
3-5 Communicable diseases-project work (HIV, ebola, malaria etc) 1 lesson into plus 2 lessons project
6-8 Non-communicable diseases- project work 1 lesson into plus 2 lessons project
9. Impacts of lifestyle on non-communicable diseases (e.g. alcohol on liver disease, diet and heart disease and smoking on lung cancer/ diseases
10. Diet, nutrition and exercise – BMI
11. Obesity and malnutrition
12. Nervous system and Nervous system diseases
13. Endocrine system and Endocrine disease
14. Intro to genetics and Genetic diseases