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 Black Death
6. Renaissance ideas about disease and illness
7. Renaissance approaches to treatment and prevention
8. Renaissance changes in anatomy and surgery
9. William Harvey
10. Hospital care in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries
11. The Great Plague of 1665
12. Edward Jenner and vaccination
13. New 19th century ideas about the causes of disease and illness
14. 19th century approaches to treatment and prevention
15. A 19th century revolution in surgery
16. The growth of hospital care in the 19th century
17. Fighting cholera in London in the 19th century
18. Improvements in public health in the 19th century
19. Modern advances in understanding the causes of illness and disease
20. Modern improvements in diagnosis
21. The development of magic bullets and antibiotics
22. The welfare state and the NHS
23. Modern approaches to medical treatment
24. Modern approaches to the prevention of illness and disease
25. The fight against lung cancer in the 21st century

• A 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