GCSE Medicine | The Great Plague

For teaching Edexcel 9-1 Medicine Through Time 1250-present.

Renaissance Medicine: How similar were approaches to the Black Death and the Great Plague?

This lesson covers the causes, treatments and preventions of the Great Plague. This includes:

• How similar were approaches to the Black Death and the Great Plague
• Plague Doctor
• Bills of Mortality source analysis
• Causes
• Treatments
• Preventions
• Comparison with Covid-19
• 20 question quiz with answers!

Exam skills:

1. Explain one way in which people’s responses to the Great Plague 1665 in London were similar to the way that people reacted to the Black Death 1348 in Britain. (4 marks) - This is discussed with students with model answers and a break down on how to answer this question!
2. Explain one way in which ideas about the causes of disease were different in the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Also included:

• Accompanying differentiated work booklet to suit the needs of all students in your class!
• 20 question quiz plus answers based on the lesson

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