Students examine the significance of the discovery and development of penicillin by Fleming, Florey and Chain. Students examine the factors that led to the discovery and the development of the pharmaceutical industry.

A 19 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
• Slide 2: Lesson overview and aims
• Slide 3-5: A choice of 3 warm up questions based on student knowledge of modern day medicines/drugs to treat or cure illness.
• Slide 6-7: Recap - Five sentences to help students recap developments in the treatment of disease by the 1900s. Includes answers.
• Slide 8-9: Task 1 - A discovery of penicillin storyboard with printable resource.
• Slide 10: Task 1 alternative - a printable timeline for students to track the development using the lesson fact sheet.
• Slide 11-12: Task 2 - The factors that contributed to the development of penicillin with printable worksheet.
• Slide 13: Follow up challenge questions
• Slide 14-15: Extention - Who should we credit with the discovery of penicillin? Includes a source based worksheet.
• Slide 16-17: Learning Review Quiz with answers
• Slide 18: Lesson fact sheet/knowledge organiser
• Slide 19: Display poster showing the factors that cause change in the history of medicine.

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