AQA GCSE History: Britain Health & People - Public Health in Medieval Towns & Monasteries (Lesson 7)

This lesson’s focus is on public health in Medieval England. Specifically, the lesson looks at the problems of public health in Medieval towns and how health and hygiene were so much better in Medieval monasteries. Students will also examine what was done in an attempt to improve public health in towns and why these improvements were so difficult to enforce.

This is a fully resourced lesson which includes a printable fact sheet based on the GCSE AQA specification as well as worksheets, discussion tasks, engaging background information, warm up tasks and learning reviews.

The lesson includes the following:
Slide 1: Title slide – Public Health in Medieval Towns and Monasteries
Slide 2: Outline of the main lesson aims
Slide 3: As you come in activity: What is meant by ‘public health’ and what are examples of modern-day public health?
Slide 4: Starter Task 1: An analysis of a diagram of a Medieval town and how it shows problems with health.
Slide 5-6: Starter Task 2: Source Analysis Task with a printable sheet of 9 interpretations and sources linked to Medieval towns.
Slide 7: Starter Task 3: A diagram of Fountains Abbey in Yorkshire – In what ways was health better?
Side 8: Printable worksheet to be used alongside the lesson fact sheets.
Slide 9: Creative Task Option & Instructions.
Slide 10: Follow Up Challenge Questions
Slide 11: Useful class clips and reading links
Slide 12: Example Exam Questions
Slide 13-15: Learning Review 1 – Key term match up with answers and student print out.
Slide 16-17: Learning Review 2 – Monastery or Town Quiz
Slide 18-19: Two Lesson Fact Sheets based on the AQA GCSE specification.
Slide 20: The original version of the Fountains Abbey diagram

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