Edexcel GCSE History
British Medicine
Big Picture of Industrial Medicine – 1750-1900 (18th and 19th century)
Overview activities that focus on the period 1750-1900
4 Page revision sheet
Includes focus on key areas - cause, treatment, surgery, care, hospitals and prevention/public health, Cholera and factors (Government and Individuals)
Timeline Activity to start
Exam Comparison Question (4 Mark) with model answers to support and Judgement 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
Edexcel GCSE History
British Medicine
Big Picture of The Middle Ages/Medieval Period
Overview activities that focus on the period 1250-1500
4 Page revision sheet
Includes focus on key areas - cause, treatment, surgery, care, hospitals and prevention/public health, Black Death and factors (Church, Galen & Hippocrates)
Timeline Activity to start
Exam Comparison Question (4 Mark) with model answers to support and Explain Question Planning (12 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
This booklet contains a series of guided reading activities for the GCSE History: Medicine Through Time topic. It covers the full Edexcel course from 1250 to the present day, including a focus study on Medicine on the Western Front.
The booklet is divided into four main periods:
Medieval Medicine (c.1250–1500)
Renaissance Medicine (c.1500–1750)
Industrial Medicine (c.1750–1900)
Modern Medicine (c.1900–present)
Plus a depth study on Medicine on the Western Front (1914–1918)
There is a guided reading and question set for every lesson, with 19 lessons in total. Each reading explains key events, discoveries, individuals, and changes in medicine, followed by 10 guided reading questions to check understanding.
Students should:
Read each passage carefully before answering the questions.
Use the dotted lines provided to write full-sentence answers.
Define the key words listed for each lesson.
Create revision flashcards using the key information and vocabulary from each topic.
This booklet is designed to help them build knowledg and create strong revision notes for their GCSE Medicine Through Time exam.
Amazing display for your classroom!! My favourite display!
History instagram display 'Histagram’
This is specifically for Medicine Through Time (Edexcel GCSE 9-1) with 13 key individuals such as Galen, Vesalius, Jenner, Pasteur, Watson and Crick and more!!
Each with a picture, ‘likes’ (which is a key date), and fun #hastags (e.g. Alexander Fleming, #penicillin #accident #luckyboy)
I have paired this display with my Netflix one too (also available on my TES shop) and they look stunning together!!
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An hour long, fully resourced lesson with powerpoint, differentiated tasks throughout, worksheets, clip link and accompanying task focusing on an introduction to medieval medicine, causes, cures and sources with a focus on scientific stagnation, Galen and superstitious/religious beliefs. Designed to meet Ofsted Good-Outstanding criteria by a experienced History teacher in a UK secondary school.
This engaging and thought-provoking series of lessons has been devised to provide students with a well-rounded, secure understanding of Roald Dahl’s ‘George’s Marvellous Medicine.’ Double and triple lessons include questions and resources for each chapter.
Chapters 1 and 2 - ‘Grandma’ and ‘The Marvellous Plan’
Chapters 3 and 4 - ‘George Begins to Make the Medicine’ and ‘Animal Pills’
Chapters 5, 6 and 7 - ‘The Cook-up’, ‘Brown Paint’ and Grandma Gets the Medicine
Chapters 8 and 9 - ‘The Brown Hen’ and ‘The Pig, The Bullocks, the Sheep, the Pony and the Nanny-goat.’
Chapters 10 and 11 - ‘A Crane for Grandma’ and ‘Mr Kranky’s Great Idea.’
Chapters 12 and 13 - ‘Marvellous Medicine Number Two’ and ‘Marvellous Medicine Number Three.’
Chapters 14 and 15 - ‘Marvellous Medicine Number Four’ and ‘Goodbye Grandma.’
The comprehensive and colourful PowerPoint presentations guide students through a wide range of activities, including those designed to enhance the following skills: retrieval, understanding vocabulary, inference, explanation, summarising, sequencing, analysis and deeper thinking activities. Additional worksheets and templates are also provided where needed for the creative tasks.
All of the resources and tried and tested in real classrooms, catalysing excellent outcomes. The resources are suitable for students in upper KS1 and lower KS2 (I originally used them with year 2 and year 3 classes).
This lesson covers all of the questions for the GCSE EDEXCEL Medicine Through Time unit, and would be ideal to use for a last minute revision/intervention lesson with students. There are examples of each question-type with model paragraphs and opportunities for students to complete exam-style answers. Ideally this would last 2x1 hour lessons, but it can be reduced to one lesson.
Edexcel GCSE History
British Medicine 1250-Present
12 Page Booklet
3 pages per medical period, with optional exam question focus (12 or 16)
Simple, accessible focus on key knowledge.
Overview of Medieval, Renaissance, Industrial and Modern Medicine
Ideas on Cause
Key Individuals
Treatment & Surgery
Prevention and Public Health
Care & Hospitals
Perfect for revision for grades 1-9
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
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.
There are lots more Medicine lessons (including Pare, Harvey, Snow & Cholera, Simpson & Choloform, Jenner & Smallpox and Pencillin) available in a range of bundles including:
Medicine, Surgery & Public Health: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/medicine-surgery-and-public-health-12921774
Medicine & Public Health: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/medicine-and-public-health-12921764
Medicine & Surgery: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/medicine-and-surgery-12921765
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Here are ten questions for each chapter of Roald Dahl’s George’s Marvellous Medicine, including two inference questions per chapter. The questions are designed to test comprehension, critical thinking, and the ability to draw conclusions from the text. These questions encourage readers to engage with the text, think critically, and make predictions based on the story’s events and characters.
This 18 lesson Scheme of Work is desgined for Edexcel GCSE History Paper 1- Medicine in Britain, 1250-present. It covers unit 4 - Medicine in the period 1900-present. Activities include note-taking, discussion, source analysis, exam practice and revision. Full Medicine in Britain SoW can be purchased as a bundle.
In this 23 slide lesson, students will investigate the many developments made in medicine as a result of the First World War. Foor instance, students will study shell shock, the methods used to treat infection, X-rays, the treatment of broken bones, developments in blood transfusions and plastic surgery.
This is a fully resources lesson which includes a warmup, starter task, engaging background information, various learning activities, challenge tasks and learning reviews.
The lesson includes the following:
Slide 1: Title slide
Slide 2: Outline of the main lesson aims
Slide 3: As you enter warm up discussion tasks.
Slide 4-6: Starter Task – Medical vocabulary task with printable sheets and answers.
Slide 7: Background information & discussion task about the problems of treating soldiers on the Western Front.
Slide 8-9: Activity 1: How does war help progress in medicine? Fill in exercise with answers revealed.
Slide 10: Lesson fact sheet covering all aspects of medical progress and developments.
Side 11-16: Image based background information about each development – ideal to use when reading through the fact sheet.
Slide 17: Activity 2: Printable lesson worksheet
Slide 18: Activity 3: Extended writing task
Slide 19: Useful clips about medicine in the First World War
Slide 20: Challenge Tasks
Slide 21-23: Learning Review Crossword with printable crosswords and answers revealed.
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All images used in this lesson are in the public domain and are therefore copyright free at the time of publishing. Images which require attribution have been attributed in the notes section of each slide where the image appears. If you feel any errors have been made, please contact me at raschoolresources@gmail.com in the first instance to resolve any issues. My lessons are completed using PowerPoint and designed on widescreen formatting. Thank you.
This single page resource is a really useful timeline of all the key events covered in the Paper 1 Thematic study Medicine in Britain. The timeline can be adapted to use as a high resolution display, book insert or revision tool and is clearly presented to fit most students’ needs.
You will receive:
1x full colour timeline poster
1x black and white timeline suitable for photocopy
1 x PDF file of the above
UPDATE 2024: Please note that all images (clipart/vector/illustrations/photographs) are in the public domain and are therefore classed as Creative Commons 1.0 unless otherwise attributed in the notes section of each slide. If you believe there are any errors, please email me directly in the first instance to resolve the issue.
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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
**This resource pack includes a wide range of revision activities on A4 which can be used by students in the classroom or at home. **
The revision pack includes the following activities:
Activity 1: A blank timeline covering all of the main eras in the study which students can add key dates to
Activity 2: Medicine key individuals match up activity
Activity 3: Key Individual significance sheet
Activity 4: Cause, treatment or Prevention sort task
Activity 5: Medieval Glossary fill in sheets (x2)
Activity 6: Early Modern Glossary fill in sheet
Activity 7: 18th and 19th century Glossary fill in sheets (x2)
Activity 8: Modern Medicine Glossary fill in sheets (x2)
Activity 9: Statistics multiple choice quiz
Activity 10: Similarity and Different practice sheet
Activity 11: What’s the Question Activity
Activity 12: ‘Use your brain to explain’ 12 mark practice sheet
Activity 13: Chronology of key developments activity
Activity 14: Medieval Medicine Quiz
Activity 15: Early Modern Medicine Quiz
Activity 16: Industrial Britain Medicine Quiz
Activity 17: Modern Britain Medicine Quiz
Activity 18: When did the development happen tick sheet
It has been specifically designed for GCSE History Edexcel but can equally be used for OCR and AQA
Where possible, answers have been provided either in the notes section of each slide or on a duplicated sheet.
This bundle contains 8 fully resourced lesson to guide you through teaching the Medicine in Britain, Unit 1 - Medicine in Medieval England (Edexcel).
Every lesson contains starter activities, warm ups, recap tasks, printable worksheets, learning reviews and importantly printable fact sheets/knowledge organisers covering the subject knowledge needed for the lesson.
The lessons in this bundle are:
Lesson 1 - An introduction to Medicine in Britain - An overview of the skills and knowledge.
Lesson 2 - Supernatural and religious explanations of the cause of disease in Medieval England.
Lesson 3 - Rational beliefs in the cause of disease - the Theory of Four Humours, the Theory of Opposites, miasma
Lesson 4 - Why was there little progress in ideas about the cause of disease in Medieval England?
Lesson 5 - Treatment and prevention - rational and religious methods.
Lesson 6 - The role of barber surgeons, apothecaries, quacks, physicians and wise women
Lesson 7 - Medieval hospitals and care in the home.
Lesson 8 - Case Study of The Black Death