Medicine through time

Online archives are a great source of short clips that can be used in lessons. They can be used as nice introductions, e made available on the schol network as additional reference material or made available for pupils working on their own IT based revision materials. The time consming bit, as always, is finding them […]

Using music in lessons helps some students to remember key points, adds a bit of variety to the delivery of content and is a ‘must’ if you’re getting students to make use of programmes like moviemaker. Music can help to create a mood in the classroom and can calm, energise, engage (or distract!) students. There […]

http://www.thackraymuseum.org/
Location: LEEDS
Thackray medical museum is fantastic for GCSE History. A visit there provides brilliant opportunities to develop understanding, particularly of developments during the Industrial Revolution. The museum has a large range of educational resources, teachers packs and was set up with GCSE History groups in mind.
http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/node6500.html
Location: Central LONDON
The Wellcome Trust opened an exhibition centre […]

As someone who rarely makes use of a textbook in the ‘traditional’ sense, I’ve probably got a rather strange take on what ‘must have’ resources are. I’ve also been lucky enough to be in schools with IT facilities that have been extremely good, and have grown too accustomed to having laptops, projectors, video cameras and […]

Note - this post will be tidied up and added to later on. Published ‘early’ as a response to this post on the schoolhistory.co.uk forum.
When I began teaching the medicine course I opted to cover things in chronological order and stuck to developing understanding of content and retention of knowledge far too much. Whilst the […]

The Medicine in Film post highlights a range of feature films that include useful clips. TV offers a much larger list of programmes, series, documentaries etc that are of use. I’ve opted to ignore Historical Documentaries as they’re rather ‘obvious’ sources of content, so without any Shama, Starkey or Wood, here’s my ‘top five’ suggestions […]

Making use of movies in the medicine through time classroom.
One of the big problems with parts of the Medicine course is getting students to think in context. They often find it hard to accept or believe that people in different periods of time may have thought differently about things; they sometimes fall into the trap […]

Welcome to medicinethroughtime.co.uk
Main features of the site:
- This Blog - the plan for the blog is to have a weekly teaching related item, discussing ways of improving teaching and learning of aspects of Medicine through Time. It will also include items for students studying GCSE History along with polls and related posts / discussions and […]