Avoiding dangerous medicines
Lesson details
Learning outcome
I can explain how to stay safe around medicines in the home.
Key learning points
- Only doctors and pharmacists can give out medicines safely.
- Medicine can be important for making people feel better.
- Taking the wrong medicine can be very dangerous.
- Taking too much medicine than prescribed can be very dangerous.
- Some medicines might look like sweets but are not; they can be dangerous.
Keywords
Doctor - someone who is trained to help us get better when we are ill
Pharmacist - someone who is trained to give advice and give us medicine
Medicine - something that can make us better when we are ill
Dangerous - something that can cause us harm
Common misconception
All medicines are good for you.
Although medicines given by doctors or pharmacists can be very important, taking the wrong medicines, or too much medicine from what has been prescribed, can be very harmful.
Teacher tip
Bring in some empty medicines for the children to see in real life, so they appreciate the size, variety and packaging that they come in.
Content guidance
Depiction or discussion of sensitive content
Supervision
Adult supervision recommended
Licence
Lesson video
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
4 Questions
Q1.What does a doctor do?
Q2.How can we stay healthy?
Q3.Who is the best person to ask if you want to know if something is safe?
Q4.Match the item to its correct use.
Assessment exit quiz
6 Questions
Q1.You should take someone else's medicine, even if it looks like yours.
Q2.If you have a headache and find medicine at home, what should you do?
Q3.If you take the wrong medicine, you could get...
Q4.Match the action with the correct response.
Q5.Match the word to its definition.
Q6.Who can give out medicine safely?
To help you plan your 2 RSHE (PSHE) lesson on: Avoiding dangerous medicines, download all teaching resources for free and adapt to suit your pupils' needs...
To help you plan your 2 RSHE (PSHE) lesson on: Avoiding dangerous medicines, download all teaching resources for free and adapt to suit your pupils' needs.
The starter quiz will activate and check your pupils' prior knowledge, with versions available both with and without answers in PDF format.
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