This is a lesson for the new AQA GCSE Biology Specification, it particularly meets specification points from the ‘Infection & Response’ unit.

This lesson is part of a 12 lesson bundle for the NEW ‘Infection & Response’ Unit, found in my TES shop - /teaching-resources/shop/SWiftScience

Pupils are then given, in pairs, the definition of malignant and benign tumours, they will need to teach their peer the definition of this word for their peer to write down - not just read it and copy it from the piece of paper! The next slide will outline what happens if the cancer metastasises, there is a video demonstrating how cancer can spread from one part of the body to another.

Pupils now have to think about the type of risk-factors that increases someone’s chances of developing cancer. Children can have a chance to brainstorm in pairs, these answers will be revealed on the board for children to self-assess.

The last activity pupils are given some data about the correlation of smoking to lung cancer cases, children will need to plot a line graph using the data provided.

For the plenary pupils will write a letter to a friend outlining what they have learnt about cancer, using as many of the key words as they can.