Programmes of Study

Medium Term Planning

Department: Unit Title: Year Group:

History Plagues and Penicillin – a

Developmental Study into how our 7
understanding of medicine and Spring Term Second Half
public health has changed over 3 lessons per week = 18 lessons
time.
 Key Learning Objectives

All
Students to gain an understanding of how medical science saw the human body and wellbeing at various
stages of history. Students to identify differences between the time periods and describe them. (L3)
Most
Students to gain an understanding of how medical science saw the human body and wellbeing at various
stages of history. Students to identify differences between the time periods and describe them. Students to
identify triggers, turning-points and advances that changed understanding at different points in time. (L4)
Some
Students to gain an understanding of how medical science saw the human body and wellbeing at various
stages of history. Students to identify differences between the time periods and describe them. Students to
identify triggers, turning-points and advances that changed understanding at different points in time. Students
to begin to make historical conclusions about Scientific and medical discoveries across different time periods
and make links between them. The roles of individuals to be explored and analysed. (L5+)

Unit Overview

Unit Focus: How has medical science and public health changed through history?
Key questions (3):
1. What did the Ancients believe about human health? 2 wk/6 lsns
2. How important was the Renaissance in bringing about change? 3 wks/9 lsns
3. How are we kept in good health in Modern Britain? 1 wks/3 lsns
Key concepts and terms that appear:
Humours, blood-letting, barber-surgeon, leeches, trepanning, urine, apothecaries, opium, flagellants, plague,
symptom, bubonic, pneumonic, searchers, Bills of Mortality, miasma, remedies, amputation, artery, ligature,
scientific, experiments, laxative, antibiotic, class, suburbs, back-to-back, midden, sewage, contamination,
typhus, typhoid, tuberculosis, consumption, smallpox, cholera, epidemic, squalor, slum, dehydrate, cesspool,
ventilation, contagious, Public Health Act, miasmatist, contagionist, engineer, Sanitary Act, sewer, halting
stations, Great Stink, ether, anaesthetic, chloroform, operating theatre, hospital, pasteurisation, microscope,
antiseptic, carbolic acid, sterilisation, cowpox, vaccination, sepsis, reforms, welfare state, social security, dole,
cradle to grave, National Health Service, National Insurance

Unit Assessment Method

 Cross Curricular Opportunities
ICT Lit
Reading
Essential

Writing
Essential
Numeracy Speaking and Listening
Essential

WRL / Enterprise VAK

Role plays etc
PHSEE Citizenship
Health and wellbeing NHS and Welfare State