Lesson for students studying Edexcel medicine GCSE, also suitable for other boards. Investigation style engaging lesson. Students recreate John Snow’s investigation - tracking the deaths onto a map to work out the cause of the cholera. Students use evidence to piece together Snow’s findings. Students also look at the impact of Snow’s findings. Resources on slides.

Lesson for students studying Edexcel medicine at GCSE. Suitable also for other boards. Lesson looks at the discoveries of Edward Jenner through a BBC clip. Students are introduced to a 16 mark essay style question on the importance of vaccination for preventing illness. Students find evidence for and against this argument and then develop an evaluation.

Lesson for students studying Edexcel medicine at GCSE. *Done as an observation lesson under the old Ofsted grading system, given outsanding grading Lesson that recaps the Black Death at the start - as a starter. Then looks at ideas, preventions and treatments at the time of the Great Plague. Students categorise these. Students then measure each idea/prevention/treatment in terms of change and continuity. Students can then evaluate the level of change between the Black Death and Great Plague. Activity that uses a sample 16 mark essay style question from the Edexcel spec. Notes on slide, all resources included.

Lesson for students studying Edexcel (would be suitable for other boards too) medicine through time. Lesson looks at key aspects of the period, including ideas about the cause of disease, preventions, treatments, technology attitudes, anatomy and students decide the levels of continuity and change in the period. Challenge tasks that encourage analysis that links to the 16 mark essay question. Notes on slides to explain the lesson. Presentation includes resources.

Lesson for students studying Edexcel Superpowers and the Cold War 9-1 on Conferences of the Grand Alliance. Focus on when, where, who was involved, agreements/disagreements. Useful due to fact that information about each conference is condensed into 3 student friendly sheets. Focus on students reading and deciding whether each decision was an agreement/disagreement. Great for teachers under time pressure trying to get through vast amounts of content, designed to deal with this issue. Focus on chronology of events and consequences of events to link to Paper 2 exam skills. Resources at the end of the powerpoint for printing.

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.

Lesson for students studying Edexcel medicine GCSE - also suitable for other boards. Lesson starts off by looking at reponses to a 4 mark question on ideas about the cause of disease, students mark and provide feedback. They can then have a go at answering the question well to achieve 4 marks. Students then sort evidence to look at the positives and negatives of germ theory. A 16 mark question is provided with advice and an essay planning sheet including sentence starters.

Lesson for students studying Edexcel medicine at GCSE. Would also be suitable for other boards. Lesson recaps anatomical ideas prior to Vesalius - Galen - clip included. Lesson then looks at Vesalius through information and clips and focuses on: *Galens ideas that he challenged *Vesalius’ discoveries/developments *impact *factors that helped/hindered Finishes with a source analysis of the front cover of the Fabrica, students use knowledge to drawn out different aspects show on the front cover & explain why they have been included. Starter includes a 4 mark exam question recapping previous learning. Notes on slides to aid teacher.

Lesson for students studying Edexcel medicine at GCSE. An introduction to the period and the key changes/important factors in this period. An overview of the key individuals and their discoveries. Evaluation of importance through balloon debate task. Sticky post it note on the head game as plenary. *IMPORTANT Uses info about key individuals from Hodder textbook - you will need this or will need your own info about each individual

Lesson designed for students studying Edexcel GCSE Paper 2 Superpowers and the Cold War. Lesson is ocused on the Iron Curtain speech and the Novikov and Long Telegrams. Starter activity included which recaps previous learning on Cold War conferences. Resources included. Students analyse the Iron curtain speech, Long & Novikov telegrams through accessible/differentiated prompts. Caters for middle/lower ability & challenge tasks for higher ability. Links to exam technique as students consider consequences of these. Nice engaging plenary task where students consolidate learning.

KS4 Edexcel medicine. Focuses on Medieval prevention and treatments + differences between the two. Useful focus on knowledge and key words. Colour activity that includes detailed knowledge for students taken from Pearson textbook, put into student friendly activity. Challenge tasks for higher ability.

Lesson for students studying Edexcel medicine through time Lesson focused on healers and training in Renaissance period and differences/change/continuity with Medieval period 16 mark question that focuses on reasons for changes in training

Edexcel Medicine Black Death lesson Starter - Exam question - Explain one similarity (4 marks) based on previous learning - advice, sentence starters, student friendly mark scheme and model answer provided. Black Death running powerpoint animation - students watch and answer question (resource at end of powerpoint) Students then colour code resource 2, to show ideas about cause of Black Death, preventions and treatments used. Higher level linking activity included. Self reflection throughout lesson 2 different plenary choices.

Introduction lesson for students studying the Cold War - specifically designed for students studying Edexcel Paper 2 9-1 Superpowers & the Cold War. Lesson introducing them to the concept of a ‘Cold War’ and the differences between Captalism and Communism.

Knowledge harvest/research sheet for KS4 students studying Medicine - could be used for all exam boards however it was specificially created for students studying Edexcel. Useful as an introduction to the Paper 1 course or as an independent research task for homework or a cover lesson. Use alongside Pearson/Hodder textbook.

A nice/engaging introduction lesson OR revision lesson for students studying Edexcel Paper 2 Henry VIII & his ministers. Students are given a character card (key individual from the course) they then use their worksheet which includes facts about all of the key people to identify which fact relates to their character after reading the character card. They then use the card to add an extra fact about the character, then move around the classroom to get a completed sheet. They should then be able to write the story of the course, showing how the individuals link together. Also includes link to a KAHOOT or similar multiple choice powerpoint quiz without technology. Writing frame/sentence starters provided for differentiation. Outcomes are: Identify individuals from the course Give facts/details about individuals from the course Make and explain links between individuals from the course Evaluate the importance of individuals from the course

Series of 6 homeworks used with students studying Edexcel GCSE 9-1 Paper 2 Superpowers and the Cold War - to be used alongside the Pearson textbook. Knowledge questions could be used in lessons as cover. I used it for consolidation of knowledge learnt in lesson.