GCSE Medicine L20 - Lifestyle Choices

This lesson contains:

• A starter to consider what ‘life choices’ mean and how they might affect the cause and cure of diseases.
• A discussion of what lifestyle factors affect out health, e.g. sun, alcohol, drugs, fast food, stress etc. This is because this lesson is about how greater awareness of diseases caused by lifestyle factors has helped us in the modern era.
• An overview of the pioneers of research on lifestyle, including Charles Booth’s original map and report and Edwin Chadwick’s report on the poor.
• An activity to do guided reading of information to do with lifestyles and complete a series of levelled questions to show their understanding.
• An opportunity to do an exam question comparing causes of disease in the modern era with another era.

Attachments:

• 1 x Powerpoint Presentation
• 1 x Publisher File