Edexcel GCSE Medival & Renaissance Revision Activity
A3 Sheet that focuses on 'The Story So Far' overview of the two periods, 1250-1700
A focu son the big picture, looking at cause, prevention, treatment/surgery, hospitals/care and key individuals/events like Vesalius, Harvey, Sydenham, The Black Death and Great Plague.
Useful for revision & retrieval activity to bookend the units.
Edexcel GCSE History
British Medicine
Big Picture of The Renaissance Period
Overview activities that focus on the period 1500-1700
4 Page revision sheet
Includes focus on key areas - cause, treatment, surgery, care, hospitals and prevention/public health, Great Plague, factors (Scientific Revolution) and Individuals (Sydenham, Vesalius, Harvey and the Royal Society)
Timeline Activity to start
Exam Comparison Question (4 Mark) with model answers to support and Explain Question Planning (16 Mark)
Retrieval Practice throughout
A3 PDF - Print it out, use for revision with you working under the visualiser.
Perfect for revision for grades 1-9
GCSE EDEXCEL History: Medicine in Britain, c1250–present
L12 - Hospital care in the Renaissance
Key topic 2: The Medical Renaissance in England
Lesson 1 FREE: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-12731416
This SoW is designed in detail and is both differentiated and engaging and allows you to move pupils through content efficiently. As a result, lessons can take around two periods to deliver and are sequenced to flow through this period comprehensively.
Made to the highest standard and constructed using current research, both dual coding and retrieval practices are at the heart of this unit. A colour scheme also runs throughout to ease both your delivery and students’ comprehension.
Key topic 2: The Medical Renaissance in England
L7 - New Renaissance discoveries
L8 - The role of Thomas Sydenham
L9 - The printing press and Royal Society
L10 - Renaissance treatment of disease
L11 - Renaissance prevention of disease
L12 - Hospital care in the Renaissance
L13 - The work of Vesalius
L14 - The role of William Harvey
L15 - 16 mark practice
L16 - The Great Plague
L17 - KT2 assessment
L17.5 - KT2 assessment feedback
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In this self-explanatory stationwork the students can work completely on their own. They get information on five different aspects of the Renaissance:
new way of thinking
new world view
conflict with the church
art and architecture
Leonardo da Vinci
On their worksheets they complete various creative tasks on these topics and it is also complete with online quizzes and links/QR Codes.
A complementary PowerPoint for revision is also included.
An Escape Room activity about the period of history known as the Renaissance, where Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and William Shakespeare came to prominence. Ideal for Year 5 or Year 6, the activity is perfect for group work, starting a new art topic, team-building activities or for a fun, engaging and interactive lesson. The activity can be used in English class as it incorporates some ELA skills, in Art or in Social Studies.
The activity has been split into four different tasks; your students will need to complete each of the tasks to reveal a word. Together the four words make a phrase for them to escape the room.
Included in this resource:
Student guidelines for completing the tasks meaning no teacher prep
A student answer key to complete as they work through the tasks
An informational text or reading comprehension passage
A true or false fact sheet & maze
A crossword puzzle
A timeline activity & answer key
A wordsearch puzzle
Teacher answer sheets for each task
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In Task 1 students will read an informational text about Michelangelo and then find their way through a maze by answering true or false comprehension questions. If they answer the questions correctly they will reveal their first word.
In Task 2 students will use the same informational text to complete a crossword puzzle. Within the puzzle there are several hidden letters which will need to be unscrambled on the completion of the puzzle to reveal the second word.
In Task 3 students will have to cut out 27 timeline task cards that cover key events of the 1400s before putting them in order from the earliest date to the most recent. When they have finished their task they can glue them onto the answer key which will reveal their third word.
In Task 4 students will have to find the missing words in a wordsearch puzzle before finding a hidden word from the letters that are left over in the puzzle. This hidden word is their fourth and final word.
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Lesson 8 of Medicine Through Time, unit 2 (GCSE History - Edexcel)
This is part of the second unit of the topic - Renaissance medicine.
Whole lesson, well formatted with videos and a variety of tasks. Textbook is sometimes needed for activities.
A series of 9 lessons looking at the Renaissance by using a thematic approach.
The following areas are covered:
Italian city-states
Origins of the Renaissance
Renaissance architecture
Renaissance art
Renaissance science
Renaissance medicine
Renaissance literature
Renaissance exploration
Assessing the greatest Renaissance individual
There is also an end of unit progress check/assessment, along with a mark scheme.
This is the bundle for Unit/Key Topic 2 of the Edexcel GCSE History Medicine in Britain. Each fully resources lesson contains all the resources/information you will need to deliver the unit.
Lesson 9: The believed causes of disease in Renaissance England.
Lesson 10: The extent of Medical Progress in Renaissance England.
Lesson 11: Prevention and Treatment of Disease in Renaissance England.
Lesson 12: Care in Hospitals and Community.
Lesson 13: Improvements in Medical Training.
Lesson 14: Case Study: Andreas Vesalius
Lesson 15: Case Study: William Harvey
Lesson 16: Case Study: The Great Plague in London 1665
Introduce your pupils to the vibrant world of the Renaissance with our comprehensive educational resource, designed specifically for 9-12 year olds. This all-in-one package provides engaging and insightful resources to help you teach the Renaissance period with ease and excitement — no planning required!
What’s Included:
1. High-Quality PowerPoint Presentation:
Engaging Content: Our expertly designed PowerPoint takes students on a visual journey through the Renaissance, featuring stunning images, key facts, and eye-catching slides.
Comprehensive Coverage: Covers all major aspects of the Renaissance, including art, astronomy, architecture and literature, and key historical figures like William Shakespeare.
Student-Friendly: Written in clear, age-appropriate language to ensure students grasp the essential concepts and historical significance of the period.
2. Eight Activity Worksheets:
A range of different themed activity worksheets including ‘Where in the World?’ ‘Art Critique’ and ‘Timeline’, as well as a word search and colouring page.
Perfect for:
Classroom Teachers: Enhance your history lessons with ready-to-use materials that captivate and educate.
Homeschooling Parents: Provide a structured and comprehensive look at the Renaissance with minimal preparation.
History Enthusiasts: Introduce young learners to the wonders of the Renaissance in an engaging and accessible way.
Embark on a journey through the Renaissance with your students and watch them discover the wonders of this transformative period in history.
This History of Medicine lesson investigates how the Renaissance changed medicine and includes factors such as art, technology and religion.
This download includes a fully editable powerpoint with all activities, instructions, clip links and worksheets/information sheets you need. It is differentiated 2/3 ways where possible with scaffolding and challenge options and is fully planned with plenty of activities for your students to complete including a starter, progress chart, all clips and related tasks, information conversion task, class discussion activity, a consolidation explain written question and a plenary.
Activities are planned to encourage thinking and discussion.
We have lots of other Medicine lessons (including Pare, Harvey, Snow & Cholera, Simpson & Choloform, Jenner & Smallpox and Pencillin) available in a range of bundles including:
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AQA GCSE Britain: Health and the People, c1000 to present
The aim of this lesson is to determine how much of an impact the Renaissance had on Medicine.
Students study and analyse key figures such as Andreas Vesalius, Ambroise Pare and William Harvey with their individual specialisms and contributions at the time of the Medical Renaissance.
They then have to decide who has made the most important contribution to medicine and justify their decisions thinking about short, medium and long term significance.
Opposition to all three is evaluated as students decide who was being criticised and why.
There is a brilliant video link to BBC teach as well as learning activities to check understanding.
The lesson is enquiry based with a key question using a lightbulb posed at the start of the lesson and revisited at the end to show the progress of learning.
The resource comes in PowerPoint format if there is a wish to adapt and change.
I have also included suggested teaching strategies to deliver the lesson and there are differentiated materials included.
Edexcel GCSE History Medicine Through Time
UPDATED for 2024
This is a complete set of lessons on Renaissance Medicine. Including the Great Plague case study source work and comparison/ contrast to the Black Death Case study.
Also includes practice paper questions with grade 9 level model answers: We teach our students the Acronym: WASIIC for the factors which led to changes or continuity in medicine and encourage them to refer to these for high level analytical answers.
Lesson 1 Renaissance Ideas about Causes including Reformation, Vesalius, Harvey and Sydenham
Lesson 2 and 3 Renaissance Ideas about Treatment (may take 2 lessons)
Lesson 4 and 5 Renaissance Surgery and Care of the Sick and Hospitals
Lesson 6 Renaissance Ideas about Prevention
Lesson 7 Summary of Individual Contribution and how far did medicine advance during Renaissance? Consolidation
Lesson 8 and 9 : The Great Plague Case Study
Lesson 10 Summary Renaissance and 12 mark exam Q.
Explore the transformative period of the Renaissance with the PowerPoint resource “Lesson 1: What Was the Renaissance?” This resource provides a comprehensive overview of the cultural, scientific, and medical advancements that marked this era.
This resource includes:
A clear definition of the Renaissance (1500-1800) as a period of “rebirth,” highlighting renewed interest in Greek and Roman ideas and innovations in science, technology, medicine, literature, and art.
Activities to examine the causes of the Renaissance, including economic prosperity, the invention of the printing press, and advancements in exploration and weaponry.
Insights into the impact of the Renaissance on medicine, including the scientific method, the challenge to Galen’s ideas, and improvements in anatomy and surgery through practices like dissection.
Tasks encouraging critical thinking, such as comparing the Renaissance with ancient and medieval periods, summarizing key developments, and analyzing a historical source of a dissection from a Renaissance textbook.
Essay challenges such as assessing the greatest development of the Renaissance and debating its influence on scientific progress.
Designed for GCSE or equivalent specifications, this .pptx file is compatible with PowerPoint, offering educators and students a dynamic way to analyze the Renaissance’s role in shaping modern medicine and science. Perfect for fostering historical understanding and analytical skills.
**Renaissance Music Lesson
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Bring your students back in time to the Renaissance! This presentation is in PDF format and includes two lessons. This outlines a brief history about the renaissance and goes through the type of music during this time. Youtube links to resources found about each instrument and music included in this lesson also.
Lesson 1 includes:
Brief history
Instruments
Features
Singing exercise (polyphonic feature of renaissance )
Lesson 2
Recap previous lesson
Listening activity
Musical Bingo (the bingo cards are not included. for this you need to pick key words you find suitable for your class and to create the game from there. This can be done by writing 8-10 words on the board and asking students to write any 6 into their copy. You can then pull each word out of a hat and which ever student has all keywords first wins.)
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Students examine the features of hospital care, care in the community and the role of women in health care in the Renaissance period.
UPDATED & RE-VAMPED CONTENT IN LINE WITH THE 2026 SPEC
The 22 slide fully resourced lesson contains activities, tasks, practice exam questions, printable resources and all background knowledge:
Slide 1: Title slide
Slide 2: Warm Up - Spot the difference between a Medieval hospital and hospital in the 1600s. Answers in the notes section.
Slide 3: Starter Source - An illustration of a grand hospital built in the late 1600s. Students infer from it what it shows about hospital care by the 1600s. Prompt questions provided with answers in the notes.
Slide 4-5: Recap - A 9 multiple choice question quiz to recap hospital and community healthcare in Medieval England. Answers revealed.
Slide 6-8: Starter - Students are given one of eight sources/extracts which all mention the role of women in medicine and healthcare in the Renaissance period. They infer information from them about healthcare in Renaissance England with the help of prompt questions on the source cards.
Slide 9: Background information about care in the home and local community in Renaissance England with a question about why it remained a popular choice for treatment. Answers revealed.
Slide 10-11: Task - Students use the fact sheet to compare hospital care in Medieval England with detailed facts about hospital care in Renaissance England. Students use this to think about how far hospitals improved.
Slide 12: Questions covering care in the community and the role of women.
Slide 13: Learning Review 1 - Sentence finishers
Slide 14-15: Learning Review 1 - Who or what am I? 6 question quiz with answers.
Slide 16: Lesson fact sheet.
Slide 17: EXAM FOCUS - Two examples of the similarity and difference questions with suggested sentence starters.
Slide 18-19: EXAM FOCUS - Two examples of the 12 mark ‘Explain why’ questions.
Slide 20: EXAM FOCUS - An example of the 16 mark ‘How far do you agree’ question.
Slide 21: A poster/information slide about the factors which cause continuity and change.
Slide 22: More from RA Resources
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Lesson 1: memory map aspects of renaissance. This is a group task which is fun and allows a prize.
Lesson 2: follow info on what the Renaissance was.
Lesson 3: Why Italy