Edexcel Medicine introduction lesson

Introduction lesson for students studying Edexcel (could be tweaked for other exam boards) medicine in Britain.
Engaging starter activity with higher level challenge questions.
Focus on chronology and key concepts crucial to this course - chronology differences between ideas about the cause of disease/prevention/treatment, continuity & change and factors affecting change.
Overview of medicine from the Medieval-Modern period. Students create a timeline and use a card sort to get an overview of key medical developments in each period. They then sort the information to show whether the development is linked to ‘ideas’ ‘preventions’ or ‘treatments’.
The work sheet called ‘continuity and change sheet’ allows students to track continuity/change in medicine and introduces them to the idea of factors affecting change. They use the information from the card sort to complete this independently.
Progress check questions included in the powerpoint presentation.
2 different options for plenary.