Card Sort: How did Edward Jenner discover smallpox vaccination?

This great little resource is suitable for a wide range of abilities and can easily be adapted to suit any text book or resource on the role played by Edward Jenner in the fight against smallpox. If you like this resource then for a little extra you can purchase the PowerPoint that accompanies this resource with extra information and activities.

Students can sort through the cards and organise the events into their correct chronological order. This could be used as a starter exercise to see if they can work out before hand what happened and then used as a mini plenary to check their answers once they have watched a video or read a text book or resource on Edward Jenner. I have linked in a an appropriate clip to this resource in the preview.

This resource will appeal to both visual and kinesthetic learners.

Aims and Objectives:

Theme: The fight against infectious diseases in the 19th Century
Know: How did people try to fight Smallpox before Edward Jenner?
Understand: How did Edward Jenner discover how to vaccinate?
Skills: Source Analysis, Cause, Consequence

WILF – What Am I Looking For?
Identify & describe: How did people try to fight Smallpox before Jenner?
Explain: How did Edward Jenner discover how to vaccinate?

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Roy