Our Teacher Guide provides some quick and easy ways you can use our resources with your GCSE History students, including:
- Whole-class delivery
- Setting homework tasks
- Encouraging students to revise independently
Choose an item from the menu to find ideas and inspiration:
This website is built around the four key time periods taught in the history of medicine:
Within each of these sections, content is broken down into chapters that students can work through at their own pace. Students can read a chapter or section ahead of a lesson on the content, or use it to revise after being introduced to a topic. You can use our exam board filter to hide additional content.
Each section ends with a simple Change and Continuity table, which summarises key information from the period.
Each section includes an engaging overview animation for each time period, which you can use to introduce your students to the content.
Each section also includes a “talking head” video featuring an academic from the University, covering specific topics relating to their own academic specialism. These videos not only cover the content they need to revise, but introduce them to potential career opportunities in this area and show how their GCSE subjects align to University studies.
- Dr Rachel Anderson From Special Collections and Archives provides an overview of The Black Death
- Dr Emma Saunders from the School of Medicine provides an overview of Andreas Vesalius and Human Anatomy
- Dr Shane McCorristine from the School of History provides a video case study of Cholera in Gateshead
- Dr Martin Farr from the School of History provides an overview of the NHS and the Welfare State
Our Source Gallery is a collection of archival sources from Newcastle University Library’s Special Collections and Archives and Surgeon’s Hall Museum, Edinburgh. From documents and rare books, to objects and instruments, these sources link to key developments in the history of medicine and are divided into the same four time periods. You can view individual sources up close and display these on a Smart Board to discuss as a class. Ideal for helping students strengthen their source analysis skills, some of the sources will be familiar from their GCSE textbooks, and some will be completely new to them.
Each chapter ends with a quickfire quiz for students to test their knowledge of key names, dates and concepts. Throughout the website, there are a range of other revision activities such as re-ordering activities, image hotspots and drag-and-drops. These can be displayed on a Smart Board and used as a fun activity at the end of a lesson, or set as homework and revision tasks.
Our practice questions provide students with the opportunity to have a go ahead of their real exams. With several example questions for AQA, Edexcel, Eduqas ad OCR, students can use these to revise and strengthen their source analysis skills using unique sources from our Source Gallery. They can then check their answers against the recommended knowledge to see what went well and where they can improve.
