Activities for SHP GCSE
This page lists all the activities that are relevant to SHP's Development Studies (Medicine & Crime), Depth Studies, Modern World Studies and History Around Us.
Development Studies: Medicine
Create a physical timeline, using students to represent the periods and key developments in Ancient Medicine |
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Help your students gain independence, learn from each other and build up their knowledge of Egyptian Medicine. |
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Act out Egyptian ideas by turning your students into human anatomy |
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The simplest possible demonstration of the theory |
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Can your students find the cure for their ailments at the Asclepion? |
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Puzzle and intrigue! A mysterious way to help students sum up a topic, exemplified by Galen's work on medicine. |
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Big Brother meets History of Medicine: Debating Significance |
Who was the most significant figure in Ancient Medicine? Was it really Hippocrates or would you chose someone else? |
Your script for playing the part of Oswald and answering your student’s questions. Apple juice required! |
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Report the big news of 1559; simulate the work of Pare and Vesalius as they struggle to save Henri II; identify key aspects of Renaissance Medicine |
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Explore the reasons why Pare made his surgical breakthrough by creating a mobile factors web. |
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Use a tin of tomatoes to help students understand Harvey's discovery |
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Find out how Andy Harmsworth provides his students with an engaging and memorable introduction to a series of lessons on the development of surgery (Bring your own saw!). |
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Explore the difficulties Lister must have had in using the carbolic spray and perhaps discover why he faced so much opposition. Activity by Ian Luff. |
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This activity explains simply, but powerfully, why Salvarsan was effective, but risky. Activity by Ian Luff |
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Thinking skills for Medicine through Time – Creating Memory Frames |
Constructing memory frames on PowerPoint that summarise the key points, aiding memory and revision |
A living graph that examines change, continuity and significance in the history of Public Health |
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Can your students find their ideal match and improve their knowledge of medicine through time? Flowers and chocolates optional! |
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A grand overview, creating a physical timeline across the room and asking students to identify the big medical ideas of each era |
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A valuable revision activity for GCSE, telling the story of the germ! |
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Turn your students into War, Government etc to help them understand the concept of factors more effectively. |
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Injecting personal experiences into GCSE Medicine through time |
Can individuals’ modern experiences help guide students through the ‘factors’ to understand how much medicine has changed? |
Development Studies: Crime
An introductory activity that will get students thinking and asking questions and will reinforce their chronological understanding |
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A role–play that brings people and decision–making off the page and helps students deepen their understanding. |
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Bring the accused to court to tell their stories. Can the rest of the class predict who will receive the death penalty? Why was the legal system so unpredictable? |
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Why was 18th century smuggling so profitable, and so accepted? |
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Would you become a highwayman? Explaining the causes of crime |
Turn your students into causes and get the rest of the class to sort out the rise and fall of highway robbery. Sadly, no masks or horses required. |
Depth Studies
Holy Box and the Altar Table – 16th century religious changes |
Create your own church interior – then change it, then change it again, then ... |
You'll need to move the furniture for this one – but it clearly, simply and painlessly explains the power situation in Europe in 1558. |
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Tell the story of the Armada by turning your pupils into ships and develop their understanding of causation and interpretations |
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Test your acting skills and get your students researching Chartism with renewed interest and purpose |
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A role play that’s simply not fair – but very good for learning |
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Arm wrestle your way to understanding the German army’s reaction to defeat |
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An active overview of key events that creates more complex explanations |
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Can your students buy a bar of chocolate before their money runs out? |
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Ian Luff explains how to introduce students to Hitler’s rise to power and then build in complexity. Added Dec. 09 |
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An active overview that’s challenging, enjoyable and effective |
Modern World Studies
Your chance to fiddle the votes and improve your students’ understanding |
History Around Us
Use your pupils as milecastles, turrets and forts to help them understand the Wall and, if they’re lucky, where their site-visit fits into the big Wall picture |
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Liven up the railway revolution with a trip from Stockton to Darlington |
General Activities
Use your students to create a memorable timeline that will help them understand all kinds of issues of chronology (Added Jan 11) |
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A gloriously simple idea for use from KS2 to A level, as a lesson starter or to conclude a whole Key Stage |
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Puzzle and intrigue! A mysterious way to help students sum up a topic. |
