This is a set of two fully resourced lessons about the Cuban Missile Crisis, aimed at a middle ability Y9 group. Lesson 1 includes a source analysis starter and a decision making activity about the build up of the crisis. Lesson 2 includes a fun recap starter, a card sort about what happened next, directions for students to make a 'crisis graph' and a newspaper article activity.

These cards include information about the (approx) 100 individuals (!) that students learn about during the 'old' Medicine through Time course. However, it can easily be adapted for the new Health and the People course by removing all of the Ancient World ones (apart from Hippocrates and Galen). The cards should be printed out and cut up, and I have used them for a whole class revision activity. I give a little stack to each student and then have to pair up the names and the descriptions and lay them all out in approximate time order. Afterwards, students could stand next to the individual they think was the most significant and make a case for them. The green ones are the bonus/'extra information' ones - individuals who are not quite as vital for them to know about.