Teachers resources
Our teachers resources for Medicine Through Time. Sorted in chronological order with general lesson materials added at the foot of the list. Tasks include packs of starter activities, online lessons, worksheets and audio-visual resources. Where possible the resources make use of artwork that is pertinent to the study of medicine through time. Our learning materials are generally speaking hosted on the TES Resources website. There is a combination of free and premium resources. New resources are being added regularly and we welcome requests.
Forthcoming resources include:
The Development of Surgery
Paul Ehrlich and the invention of Chemotherapy
Chasing King Cholera: John Snow and the Broad Street Pump
Medicine Through Time Teachers’ Resources
Attitudes towards medicine in Ancient Eygpt | Attitudes towards medicine in Ancient Eygpt Online activity that uses sources from the ancient world to explore the impact of religious beliefs on medical practice. |
Cult of Asclepius  | Cult of Asclepius A decision making exercise that places the learner in the heart of the Greek world. |
Theory of the Four Humours | Theory of the Four Humours A series of explanations and activities that develop an understanding of this important idea. |
Change and Continuity in the Ancient World | Change and Continuity in the Ancient World Interactive exercise that revises knowledge and understanding of the key changes and continuities over key ancient civilisations. |
Galen and Roman Medicine | Galen and Roman Medicine Explore Galen's influence on medicine in the Roman world. |
Medical Monopoly A revision game based on Medicine in the Ancient World | Medical Monopoly A revision game based on Medicine in the Ancient World |
Medieval Medicine An Active Learning exercise  | Medieval Medicine An Active Learning exercise providing a breadth of knowledge of medicine in the Middle Ages |
Medieval Medicine | Medieval Medicine An aid for researching a variety of aspects of medical practice and beliefs during the Middle Ages. |
Impact of the Black Death  | Impact of the Black Death Card sort exercise on the impact of the Black Death. Includes extension activities. Created by Roy Huggins |
Islamic Medicine: A mindmapping exercise | Islamic Medicine: A mindmapping exercise Designed to develop learners revision skills whilst building up their knowledge and understanding of developments in the early islamic empire. |
Islamic Medicine Lesson Pack Assessment for learning activity | Islamic Medicine Lesson Pack. Assessment for learning activity using a number of sources. |
Medicine in the Renaissance  | Medicine in the Renaissance These resources are for GCSE Medicine Through Time teachers. The pack contains an overview of the main charecteristics of the period and the way in which Medicine developed at the time. |
William Harvey | William Harvey Activity Sheets that explore the importance of previous work in enabling Harvey's most significant findings. |
Andreas Vesalius | Andreas Vesalius Background information and questions to check knowledge. |
Research and revision grids: the Renaissance | Research and revision grids: the Renaissance Research grids and timeline tasks for the Renaissance period. |
The Great Plague, an Investigation.  | The Great Plague, an Investigation. Data rich investigation into the spread of the Great Plague of 1666. Makes use of contemporary accounts, data and illustrations. |
Edward Jenner: Vaccinations and Smallpox.  | Edward Jenner: Vaccinations and Smallpox. Online Lesson. How did Edward Jenner discover a vaccine against the deadly disease Smallpox? How did people react to the idea of vaccination? Find out here. |
Public Health or Pasteur? | Public Health or Pasteur? Interactive lesson from the Dynamic Learning package that I co-authored for Hodder Murray. |
King Cholera: John Snow and the Cholera outbreak of 1854 | King Cholera: John Snow and the Cholera outbreak of 1854 Outline of a lesson with links to external resources (source material and audio visual). Easy to adapt for your own classroom. |
How safe were 19th century hospitals? | How safe were 19th century hospitals? An investigation making use of a selection of external resources. |
Public Health through the ages | Public Health through the ages An active learning lesson written with Adam Henson and myself. Edited by Ian Dawson and hosted externally on his site. |
The Fight against Infectious Disease | The Fight against Infectious Disease Information sheet with accompanying literacy tasks. |
Starter Activities for Medicine through Time | Starter Activities for Medicine through Time A collection of starter activities and 'bell tasks' relating to medicine through time. |
| Flash Card Revision Activity | Flash Card Revision Activity A fun but proven way of improving recall of knowledge. This resource can be used in a number of different ways from engaging starter / plenary sessions to use as revision flash cards. Resource by Roy Huggins. |
Card Sort and Top Trumps Revision Activity | Card Sort and Top Trumps Revision Activity Simple but effective revision activities that can be used over and over again. By Roy Huggins. |
Recommended external teaching resources
Audio-visual materials that I have come across or use are listed on this page.
Galen’s influence (Online lesson, requires flash) External link to a very
good online lesson hosted on historystuff.co.uk
Public Health and housing. (Online activities, external link) An excellent
series of 5 source based tasks created by the Manuscripts and specials
collections team at the University of Nottingham.
Public Health / Industrial Revolution. (Online activities, exteral link)
A series of online activities provided by Mr Walker on educationforum.co.uk.
Developments in Surgery. (MS Word) An introductory activity on surgery asking pupils
to think about the problems faced by surgeons at the time and the methods
of dealing with them that were available at the time.
Surgery in the 19th Century. (MS Powerpoint). Overview of developments in
Surgical technique.
Simulating 19th century surgery. External link to an excellent active learning
lesson devised by Andy Harmsworth.
Medicine history – Teaching material in a variety of formats to download from Teachable.net.
Military medicine through time (Online lesson, requires flash) External link
to the NOVA Science programme interactivity on the history of military
medicine.
Revision Booklet. (MS Word) A simple enough idea. Pupils complete biographies
of key individuals in the history of medicine as homework activities over
the course. This can then be used as part of their revision for the exams.
Have you got a Medicine Through Time teaching activity, worksheet, presentation or video that you would like to share with colleagues? Contact us with details and a short blurb.