A task sheet about the improvements in communications in the Renaissance era and their impact on medicine. This sheet contains information on the developments of the Renaissance, a review activity for the students to complete (by matching sentence halves) and a 12-mark exam style question to complete. This activity is perfect for distance or e-learning, class work or setting for home learning.

A revision/review activity for the all GCSE Medicine specifications. There are two tasks in this activity sheet, focusing on the role of factors in the development of medicine in the 1800s. First activity: students are asked to use all their knowledge so far to find examples of the different factors (war, teamwork, chance, seeking improvement/ambition, religion, individuals, science and technology, government, communications) at play in the 1800s and how they have improved medicine. Second activity: students are then to reflect on what they have revised and rank the 9 factors in a Diamond 9 in order of importance for medical development. A perfect activity for distance learning, revision, classwork or home learning.

There are two tasks on this worksheet: The first is a gap fill (/missing word/fill in the gaps) activity covering where the Black Death of 1347 came from, why is spread around the world so quickly, how humans get infected, symptoms of the bubonic plague, and medieval reactions to the disease. The second task is a ranking activity, asking students to reflect on what they have learnt in the gap fill and rank the reasons why the Black Death spread so quickly. This activity is suitable for all Medicine through Time syllabuses. Although this is a sheet-based activity, the text could be copied and adapted to be set as online work on a vle/sharepoint platform.