Students examine the increased role of the British government in methods of disease prevention. It will focus on the development of new vaccines, government laws and healthy lifestyle campaigns.

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The 20 slide fully resourced lesson contains activities, tasks, practice exam questions, printable resources and all background knowledge:

• Slide 1: Title slide
• Slide 2: Warm Up Questions
• Slide 3: Vaccination Scenario - promotes debate about the modern use of vaccinations in Britain.
• Slide 4-5: Recap - An 8 question quiz which recaps student knowledge of Jenner’s smallpox vaccination, cholera and government laws to prevent disease in the 1800s. Answers provided.
• Slide 6: Background information covering the role of the government in preventing disease.
• Slide 7: Task 1 - Students watch 4 short clips which show government healthy lifestyle campaigns.
• Slide 8: Task 2 - Students complete a table outlining the successes of government vaccination programmes in the 20th century.
• Slide 9-11: Task 3 - Students complete their own timeline of the actions taken by the government to deal with disease prevention. Optional worksheets which are both printable.
• Slide 12: Challenge questions
• Slide 13: An additional worksheet if of any use.
• Slide 14: Lesson fact sheet
• Slide 15-16: EXAM FOCUS - Examples of the ‘similarity’ and ‘difference’ questions with suggested sentence starters.
• Slide 17: EXAM FOCUS - An example of a 12 mark ‘Explain why’ question.
• Slide 18: EXAM FOCUS - An example of a 16 mark ‘How far do you agree’ question.
• Slide 19: Information poster
• Slide 20: More from RA Resources

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