GCSE: Introduction to WW1 Medicine

For teaching GCSE Edexcel 9-1 Medicine Through Time - British Sector on the Western Front

This whole lesson plus resources (as a booklet, but can be easily adapted to be worksheets for exercise books) is an introduction for WW1 Medicine. This lesson looks at;

• What are trenches? How did we come to trench warfare?
• Analysing two letter extracts from Richard Smethurst, with a focus on medical conditions that can be ascertained from them
• Trench structure
• A selection of WW1 videos for making a mind-map about life in the trenches, including The Somme, Gas, Barbed Wire and more.

The whole lesson has an underlying focus on medicine to encourage students to discuss and consider the medical conditions that may arise in the trenches.

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