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Students examine the religious, supernatural and rational methods used by Medieval people to treat and prevent illness and disease. It includes methods such as cupping, bloodletting and the use of herbal remedies.

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The 27 slide fully resourced lesson contains activities, tasks, practice exam questions, printable resources and all background knowledge:
-Slide 1: Title slide
Slide 2-3: Warm Up - Students think about the modern uses for herbs and spices and match up to their uses. Answers included.
Slide 4-6: Recap - A gap fill worksheet covering all the main Medieval theories about the cause of illness. Answers and a printable worksheet included.
Slide 7: Discussion - An outline and discussion task based on the difference between the key terms of prevention, treatment and cure.
Slide 8-10: Starter Task - Students are given two written sources both containing examples of Medieval treatments. Each source comes with a set of 5 questions to help them analyse the source. Printable worksheet included.
Slide 11: Background information about Medieval treatments and cures
Slide 12: Important information about challenging the stereotype of Medieval England being unhygienic.
Slide 13: Task 1 - Students are given clear instructions to create their own information leaflet informing Medieval people about the methods they can use to treat and prevent illness.
Slide 14-15: Task 2 - A worksheet based task which includes a printable worksheet with a variety of activities covering the lesson.
Slide 16: Challenge questions
Slide 17: Learning Review 1 - Students are shown 5 images showing various Medieval methods of treatment. They should outline the methods shown in each.
Slide 18-19: Learning Review 2 - For higher ability students, this 8 question quiz covers the more specific details covered in the lesson.
Slide 20-21: Lesson fact sheets
Slide 22-23: EXAM FOCUS - Examples of the 4 mark similarity and difference questions with useful sentence starters.
Slide 24-25: EXAM FOCUS - Examples of the 12 and 16 mark questions with structural help.
Slide 26: Information sheet showing the factors which influence change
Slide 27: More from RA Resources

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