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Students examine continuity and change in the ideas about the treatment and prevention of illness and disease in Renaissance England, c.1500-c.1700.

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The 24 slide fully resourced lesson contains activities, tasks, practice exam questions, printable resources and all background knowledge:

• Slide 1: Title slide
• Slide 2: Warm Up - Finish and discuss a well known saying
• Slide 3-5: Recap - Students complete a missing word activity covering the treatments used throughout the Medieval period. Answers and printable resource included.
• Slide 6: Starter Source 1 - A visual source showing the use of antimony for purging. Prompt questions given to help students with the source.
• Slide 7: Starter Source 2 - A written source covering the continued use of herbal remedies. Prompt questions provided.
• Slide 8: Background information about the influence of the monarchy on new forms of treatment in the time.
• Slide 9: Background information covering the continued use of herbal remedies in the Renaissance.
• Slide 10-11: Task 1 - A printable worksheet which encourages students to outline how the treatments of the time were examples of continuity or change. Students then evaluate how far ideas about treatments changed in the period.
• Slide 12: Task 2 - An additional, printable worksheet linked to the fact sheets which focus more on explanation.
• Slide 13: Task 2 - A creative option for Task 2
• Slide 14-15: Task 3 - Students are given 6 examples of treatments used during the Renaissance and have to explain if they were more effective or caused more harm.
• Slide 16-17: Learning Review - 12 questions covering the content from the lesson. Answers provided.
• Slide 18: EXAM FOCUS - Two examples of the 4 mark similarity and difference questions with suggested sentence starters.
• Slide 19: EXAM FOCUS - An example of a 12 mark ‘Explain why’ question.
• Slide 20-21: EXAM FOCUS - Two examples of the 16 mark ‘How far do you agree’ question.
• Slide 22: Lesson fact sheet
• Slide 23: A printable poster covering all the factors than can explain continuity and change.
• Slide 24: More from RA Resources

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