KS3 & KS4 history curriculum

This unit uses and builds on various units that deal with change and continuity from key stages 1, 2 and 3. It develops and reinforces pupils' big picture of the past that they have established in thematic units about seafarers and women. It also enriches and consolidates the majority of the units they studied at key stage 3, which focused on the medieval, early modern and modern worlds. This unit prepares pupils for the historic environment, where their thematic knowledge is consolidated and enriched by looking at a single place at a particular time in great detail.

1. Medieval ideas about the causes of illness and disease
2. Medieval approaches to treating and preventing disease
3. Medieval surgery
4. Medieval caregivers
5. The role of Christianity in Medieval medicine
6. The nature and importance of Islamic medicine and surgery
7. Medieval public health in towns and monasteries
8. The Black Death
9. Renaissance ideas about disease and illness
10. Renaissance approaches to treatment and prevention
11. Renaissance changes in anatomy and surgery
12. William Harvey
13. Hospital care in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries
14. The Great Plague of 1665
15. John Hunter
16. Edward Jenner and vaccination
17. New 19th century ideas about the causes of disease and illness
18. 19th century approaches to treatment and prevention
19. A 19th century revolution in surgery
20. The growth of hospital care in the 19th century
21. Fighting cholera in London in the 19th century
22. Improvements in public health in the 19th century
23. Modern advances in understanding the causes of illness and disease
24. Modern improvements in diagnosis
25. The development of magic bullets and antibiotics
26. Modern approaches to medical treatment
27. Improvements in modern surgery
28. The Liberal reforms and public health
29. The welfare state and the NHS
30. Modern approaches to the prevention of illness and disease
31. The fight against lung cancer in the 21st century

• An working knowledge of some of the major political, religious, social and economic developments that have taken place in Britain over the last c1000 years
• Familiarity with the second order concepts of change and continuity
• Familiarity with the second order concepts of cause and consequence