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Students study the places of medical care in Medieval England which a focus on Church run hospitals and care within the community and home.

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The 23 slide fully resourced lesson contains activities, tasks, practice exam questions, printable resources and all background knowledge:

• Slide 1: Title slide
• Slide 2: Warm Up - Students think about what they can infer from a map showing the modern hospitals named after Saints. Answers provided in the notes section.
• Slide 3-4: Recap - Students recap the main roles/people responsible for care and treatment in Medieval England by using key words linked to their work. Answers provided.
• Slide 5: Starter Activity 1 - How would students describe modern hospitals? Prompt questions and ideas provided to help with discussion.
• Slide 6: Starter Activity 2 - Students use an illustration of a Medieval hospital to describe facts about them. Prompt questions provided.
• Slide 7: Starter Activity 3 - Students are given a printable resource with an image of a Medieval and modern hospital ward. They have to discuss and outline the similarities and differences between them.
• Slide 8-9: Background information covering the early development of hospitals and their links to the Church and Christianity.
• Slide 10-11: Task 1 - Students are provided with a printable worksheet from which they can go on to complete a diary entry from a person in a Medieval hospital. Sentence starters provided with printable resources.
• Slide 12: Alternative Task - A printable worksheet about Medieval hospitals and home care based on the lesson fact sheet.
• Slide 13: Challenge Questions
• Slide 14: Learning Review 1 - What were the advantages and disadvantages of Medieval hospitals? A table based activity.
• Slide 15: Learning Review 2 - A Jeopardy style quiz
• Slide 16: Lesson fact sheet
• Slide 17-18: EXAM FOCUS - Examples of the similarity and difference questions based on the lesson.
• Slide 19-20: EXAM FOCUS - Examples of the 12 mark ‘Explain why’ question.
• Slide 21: EXAM FOCUS - An example of a ‘How far’ question based on the role of women as carers.
• Slide 22: Information sheet covering the factors that caused change in medicine
• Slide 23: More from RA Resources

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