A solvent is a common chemical substances, some may be misused by people to experience a ‘high'.

Being under the influence of drugs is being intoxicated.

Solvent abuse

Science

Differences between infectious and non-infectious disease

The gas exchange system in healthy humans

Lifestyle diseases

Asthma

Smoking

Vaping

Recreational drug use: depressants

Recreational drug use: stimulants

Pupils will learn more about non-communicable diseases in humans including cardiovascular diseases and cancer; and about communicable diseases in humans and plants caused by pathogens including bacteria, viruses, fungi and protists.

Pupils learned about the major food groups, eating a balanced diet and how it affects health. Pupils also looked at food labels and calculated the amount of energy provided by different foods and investigated the effects of exercise on heart rate and breathing rate.

This unit explores the human gas exchange system, focusing on the impact of exercise, asthma, smoking, recreational drugs, and the differences between infectious and non-infectious diseases. It emphasises understanding scientific methods, evidence, risk evaluation, and peer review importance.

Disease and drugs

Subjects which particular individuals may be sensitive to, eg, adoption, migration, bereavement or death, divorce, poverty, deprivation.

Depiction or discussion of sensitive content

Depiction or discussion of mental health issues

Which household products contain solvents that can be harmful if inhaled?

True or false? The solvents in some products can produce depressant effects when inhaled.

Laughing gas is another name for {{}} oxide.

How can solvents cause sudden death when abused?

Which of the following are long term effects on the body of solvent abuse?

{{}} pressure can make a person do something they wouldn't usually engage in.

What are drugs that slow down the messages from the brain to the rest of the body known as?

Which of these diseases are non-infectious?

When it is written into the law that you should not use a drug it is {{}}. 

Which of the following terms is being described? 
"A solid that will dissolve in a solvent"

True or false? Volatile means a liquid that readily evaporates to become a gas at room temperature.

Solvent abuse

Lesson outcome

Content guidance