World History teaching resources for the high school classroom: lesson plans, worksheets, quizzes and simulation games for KS3, IGCSE, IB and A-Level teachers.
Interactive exercises
Head2Head Interview with Doctor Fox
Play Your Dates Right: GCSE Medicine Through Time
Use ActiveScience and Bitesize for this so far;
Prehistoric Medicine
Ancient Egyptian Medicine
Greek Medicine
Roman Medicine
Medieval Medicine and Galen (http://www.learner.org/exhibits/middleages/health.html)
Arabic, Islamic, Chinese Medicine
Renaissance Medicine (see too http://www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/vtc/ngfl/history/Medicinerecap/, http://www.open2.net/renaissance2/doing/italian.html)
18th / 19th Century - The Drugs Revolution
20th Century
21st Century
Surgery
Public Health Through Time
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Doctor over Time From PBS, an interactive game in which you compare how doctors would have treated you differently in different eras. |
| 2. | Turning the Pages - Medicine Through Time A visually impressive exhibit from the British Library - turn over the pages of "The Fabric of the Human Body" one by one using your mouse! The Robert William book "On Cutaneous Diseases" can also be viewed. |
| 3. | The Nobel Prize for Medicine - Interactive Games |
Worksheets
| 1. | Change and Continuity in Ancient Medicine Lesson Plan and resources from Ian Dawson |
| 2. | HistoryontheNet Worksheets A variety of lesson starters and plenaries in wordsearch and multiple choice format. |
External Links
| 1. | BBC Bitesize - Medicine Through Time |
| 2. | SchoolsHistory.org.uk - Medicine Through Time Useful summary pages covering all the main aspects of the course |
| 3. | SchoolHistory.co.uk - Medicine Through Time Interactive Diagrams, Quizzes, links |
| 4. | Education Forum - Medicine Through Time Detailed, useful information for revision purposes; the same author has produced some Hot Potatoes Quizzes. |
| 5. | Passmores School - Medicine Through Time A comprehensive lesson-by-lesson breakdown of the course |
| 6. | Shropshire Routes to Roots - Medicine Through Time |
| 7. | Interactive Flash Timeline A clever way of visualising the changes over time; each illustration is hyperlinked to detailed information. A static breakdown of the information can be found here. |
Audio-Visual resources
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