Medicine & Health Through Time

The series: SHP Smarter History is the new approach to GCSE from the Schools History Project. It offers interesting lessons and comprehensive content plus step by step coaching in exam skills using SHP's Exam Buster approach. This is the best of both worlds from the experts who know what good teaching is about and also know what the SHP specifications are all about. SHP Edexcel Medicine and Health is a new course book for students taking the Edexcel Medicine development study. It covers all the relevant requirements of the Edexcel specification but delivers them in the context of a motivating, enquiry led approach to ensure that your courses are interesting and motivating to teach yet still deliver good results for your students. Structure - Chapters 1 and 2 provides a range of strategies building an overview of the course and structuring pupils thinking about the periods and the issues they will study. - Chapter 3 provides a period study covering the extension period from Roman times to 1350 - Chapters 4-6 provide three parallel cross-period thematic investigations - approaching each topic via a refreshing and involving enquiry. Past examinations have been thoroughly analysed to see the pattern of questions and their focus and examiners have been consulted at every stage. - Chapter 7 reviews the key themes, factors and concepts - Chapter 8 tackles the distinctive requirements of the Source Investigation into surgery: which builds on the contextual knowlege gathered through the development study to source handling and examination skills. At every relevant stage through the book there are 'ExamBuster' features ('Meet the Examiner' and 'Smarter Revision') that help blend exam preparation with historical learning so that by the end of the course students understand not only the period and its issues but also how they will be expected to think and write about this for the examination. Edexcel examiners and markers have been involved from the outset in planning and writing this course. Key features : - varied pace and style of learning which is essential to keep your students motivated over a long period. - engaging exam preparation techniques that have been thoroughly trialled in real schools with real pupils - written by classroom teachers rather than remote examiners who know how to keep pupils motivated - created by the leading curriculum development body for history - the Schools History Project - who are the architects of the SHP approach and the SHP specifications - backed up by SHP's training programme - a national conference plus regional inset - to support you as you introduce this course in your school. Dynamic Learning This course is supported by a series of Dynamic Learning CD-ROMs which provide digital activities for the whiteboard or computer network: CD 1 (People and Periods ISBN 9780340946718) and CD 2 (Review and revise ISBN 9780340946725) are already available. Details can be found on the Dynamic Learning home page: http://www.dynamic-learning.co.uk/RVE8611f929c89041a3a88f7f3dbf6825ee,,.aspx CD 3 specific to Edexcel featuring digital support for the Edexcel Exam Busters will be coming in 2009.