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Students examine the progress of medical knowledge about X-rays, blood transfusions, blood storage, aseptic surgery before the start of the First World War and how their use was limited.

The 16 slide fully resourced lesson contains activities, tasks, practice exam questions, printable resources and all background knowledge:

• Slide 1: Title slide
• Slide 2-3: A choice of two photographic based activities to get students thinking about the problems of surgery on the Western Front
• Slide 4: Recap - Students need to identify and then correctly organise the various stages of the chain of evacuation. Answers given.
• Slide 5: Starter - Discussion about the meaning of the lesson’s key terms - aseptic, blood transfusion and X-ray
• Slide 6: Task 1 - table fill activity for students to understand how these aspects of medicine had progressed by 1914 but also how their use was limited due to the conditions on the Western Front.
• Slide 7: Task 2 - A set of 5 challenge questions
• Slide 8-9: EXAM FOCUS - Examples and printable resource covering the ‘One feature’ question.
• Slide 10: EXAM FOCUS - An example and printable resource covering the ‘Follow Up’ question
• Slide 11: EXAM FOCUS - An example and printable resource covering the ‘How useful’ question
• Slide 12-13: Learning Review - Key term match up with answers
• Slide 14: Lesson fact sheet
• Slide 15: EXAM FOCUS - A helpful slide/printable resource to help students think about the usefulness of a source.
• Slide 16: EXAM FOCUS - A helpful slide/printable resource to help students select suitable sources for the follow up question.
• Slide 17: More from RA Resources

This lesson has been updated in line with the amended specification and exam questions ready for the 2025/6 examinations.

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