? starter activity

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? starter activity
Your teacher will give you some information about
the history of medicine. There are 12 facts to
learn by the end of this session. On each slip of
paper is a question and an answer. Go up to
someone in the class and ask them your question.
If they dont know the answer tell them. They
will do the same. When you have finished swap
papers and repeat this process with someone else.
By the end you should know the answers to all 12
facts.
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What will I be studying this year?
? Aims

• To find out what I will be studying for GCSE
  History
• To define key words used during the course
  create a glossary
• To create a timeline of events, ideas and
  individuals

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? Your task
What will I need to do to be successful at GCSE
history? Make a list of ideas, share your ideas
with your partner and add any new suggestions to
your list. I will ask you how many of these
things you have done throughout the course!
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Possible answers

• Keep well-organised notes
• Develop systems for memorising key facts (dates,
  names, events etc.)
• Watch TV (History Channel, UK History etc.)
• Use the departmental website (www.studyhistory.co.
  uk)
• Visit museums (Imperial War Museum, Science
  Museum)
• Meet homework deadlines

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How will I be examined?

• Study in development medicine and public Health
  through time (37.5)
• Enquiry in depth (37.5)
• 2 coursework assignments modern world study
  (Northern Ireland) History around us (Ightham
  Mote) (25)

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How will medicine through time be examined?

• Written paper
• 1 ¾ hours
• Section A 1 compulsory source-based question on
  developments in medicine (2010, change from
  supernatural to natural approaches to disease in
  Ancient
• World and its impact on medicine before 1700 AD)
• Section B 1 question from choice of two on
  medicine through time
• Section C 1 question from choice of 2 on public
  health

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Grade boundaries, June 2008
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? Your task

• Look at the example of a past paper. With your
  partner write some tips for fellow students on
  how to ensure exam success with this paper.

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Hints on exam success

• Read rubric carefully
• Read the questions carefully
• Look at the marks available for each question
• Use the source labels to help you
• Support your ideas with detail factual evidence
• Structure your revision If you fail to plan,
  your planning to fail

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? Your task

• It is important you keep a glossary of keywords
  that you come across during the course. Your
  teacher will give you a pile of key words. Try to
  match them against a definition. Create a
  glossary page in your notes and copy down the key
  words.

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? Homework

• The study in development requires you to have a
  firm grasp of when key events happened in a the
  correct chronological order. Your teacher will
  give you a copy of a timeline. Place the periods
  and dates on the timeline and then find out when
  the following events happened, ideas were popular
  or individuals lived. Write a brief description
  on your timeline.

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Events, individual ideas

• Theory of 4 humours
• Hippocrates
• Galen
• Black Death
• Andreas Vesalius
• William Harvey
• The Great Plague
• Edward Jenners Casebook
• Florence Nightingale
• Public Health Act
• Discovery of penicillin
• Introduction of NHS
• 1st heart transplant