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Students use their knowledge of medicine in the 18th and 19th century to explain why there was significant medical progress between c1700-c1900.

UPDATED & RE-VAMPED CONTENT IN LINE WITH THE 2026 SPEC

The 18 slide fully resourced lesson contains activities, tasks, practice exam questions, printable resources and all background knowledge:

• Slide 1: Title slide
• Slide 2: Warm up brain teaser with answer
• Slide 3-4: Recap 1 - Students use the first person descriptions to recap all the key individuals covered in the unit and their work. Answers and challenge question provided.
• Slide 5-7: Recap 2 - Students match up 8 key individuals to their work. Answers and printable resource provided.
• Slide 8: Discussion - Students use a prompt sheet to discuss their own ideas about why they think there was so much progress in medicine in this time.
• Slide 9-10: Task 1 - A choice of two printable worksheets for students to outline and then explain the factors which caused a progress in medicine.
• Slide 11: Task 2 - Students asked to explain how the factors link and they are provided with an example to start them off.
• Slide 12-13: Lesson fact sheets
• Slide 14: Learning Review Questions covering medicine in the 18th and 19th century.
• Slide 15: EXAM FOCUS - Two broad examples of the 4 mark ‘similarity’ and ‘difference’ questions with suggested sentence starters.
• Slide 16: EXAM FOCUS - An example of a 12 mark question based on the question of why there was significant progress in medical knowledge in the 18th and 19th century.
• Slide 17: EXAM FOCUS - A ‘How far do you agree’ question based on the lesson.
• Slide 18: More from RA Resources

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