Students examine the impact of Florence Nightingale’s work in the Crimean War for the improvement of hospital care as well as her work to improve the status and training of nurses in Britain during the late 1800s.

A 22 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 overviews and aims
• Slide 3: Warm Up - Why do men feature more heavily in our study of medicine in history?
• Slide 4: Warm Up 2 - Discussion - How would you go about treating a modern day injury?
• Slide 5: Starter - Students use images of the Crimean War to think about the type of injuries soldiers would experience and think about how they would have been treated at the time.
• Slide 6: Starter - Students analyse a chart created by Nightingale and assess its meaning and its usefulness.
• Slide 7-14: Background information slides covering Nightingale’s work and impact.
• Slide 15-16: Task 1 - Students complete a chart to outline the impact that Nightingale had. Includes printable resource.
• Slide 17: Task 2: Students think about how factors such as public attitudes, the press and the government helped Nightingale’s work.
• Slide 18: Challenge questions
• Slide 19: Learning Review 1 - Students match the statistics to the fact about Florence Nightingale.
• Slide 20: Learning Review 2 - Students aim to complete the 5 sentences about Florence Nightingale’s significance.
• Slide 21: Lesson fact sheet/knowledge organiser
• Slide 22: Factors of change poster/display.

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