Students examine how far methods of treatment for illness and disease changed during the Renaissance with a focus on quacks, wise women, barber surgeons, apothecaries as well as the role of exploration and the printing press.

A 28 slide fully resourced lesson containing warm up & learning review activities, a choice of tasks, printable resources and a printable knowledge organiser with all background knowledge:

• Slide 1: Title slide - Changing Treatments for Disease in the Renaissance
• Slide 2: Lesson Aims
• Slide 3-4: Warm Up - Link the herbal remedies to their uses
• Slide 5-7: Recap - A sentence gap fill recapping Medieval treatments with printable worksheet and answers
• Slide 8-10: Source Starters - Three sources covering common and new treatments of the time with prompt questions
• Slide 11-12: Background information covering the continued use of herbal remedies and the role of the monarch.
• Slide 13-16: Background information covering the role of barber surgeons, wise women, apothecaries and quacks.
• Slide 17-19: Task 1 - A sort task for students to identify either new or existing treatments. With answers and printable worksheet
• Slide 20: Task 1 follow up questions
• Slide 21-22: Task 2 - How effective were the new treatments?
• Slide 23: Challenge questions with example exam/assessment questions
• Slide 24-26: Learning Review Crossword with answers and printable
• Slide 27: Lesson fact sheet/knowledge organiser
• Slide 28: Poster slide - the factors that cause change

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