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**This lesson examines how the advancement in technology such as X-rays, microscopes and blood tests have helped improve the ability of doctors to diagnose and treat patients in the modern period. **

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The 20 slide fully resourced lesson contains activities, tasks, practice exam questions, printable resources and all background knowledge:

• Slide 1: Title slide
• Slide 2: Warm Up - What is the definition of ‘diagnosis’? Answer selected
• Slide 3: Recap - Three short activities/questions to help students recap modern beliefs about the cause of disease.
• Slide 4: Long Term Recap - Students recap the use of urine charts as a Medieval and Early Renaissance method of diagnosis. Includes source image and prompt questions about similarities and differences.
• Slide 5: Starter 1 - Students think about examples of medical technology and how they can help with treatment and diagnosis.
• Slide 6-7: Starter 2 - Students are given 6 advances in medical technology and have to see if they can place them in the correct chronological order. Answer given.
• Slide 8: A recap of the development of technology, especially microscopes before the 1900s.
• Slide 9: A slide outlining the impact that modern technology has had on the diagnosis and treatment of disease.
• Slide 10-11: Printable timelines and worksheets for students to complete.
• Slide 12: Follow up challenge questions.
• Slide 13-14: Learning Review - students select the correct words to make each statements about modern diagnosis accurate. Answers given.
• Slide 15: Lesson fact sheet
• Slide 16: EXAM FOCUS - Two examples of the similarity and difference question with suggested sentence starters.
• Slide 17: EXAM FOCUS - An example of the 12 mark ‘Explain why’ question
• Slide 18: EXAM FOCUS - An example of the 16 mark ‘How far do you agree’ question.
• Slide 19: Information slide/poster covering the factors that cause continuity and change in the topic Medicine in Britain.
• Slide 20: More from RA Resources

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