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8C Doctor and diseases

Recall a disease caused by each different sort of microbe. Recall how diseases can be spread. Explain how doctors work out what is wrong with people.
 * Objectives (what you will learn this lesson) **


 * Starter **
 * Review homework
 * Key term quiz

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 * Activities **
 * 1) In pairs take turns to be the doctor. [|Can you diagnose the illness?]
 * 2) How do doctors use laboratories to help find out what is making a person ill?
 * 1) Complete the [|summary table on example diseases]. You may use the internet to help you.
 * 2)  Find out about food poisoning
 * 1) Find out how diseases can be spread by looking at Spanish Flu
 * 1) Complete Q4-8 from p40-1 of Exploring Science 8
 * 2) Extension: [|Malaria] kills approximately 2 million people a year. Find out about what causes this disease and how it is spread.

Individually decide upon your answers for the [|true-false quiz]. If you have not understood everything review again at home. Review completed classwork / key term quiz
 * Summary **

Download complete the gapfill on [|Under attack], print-off and stick into your exercise book. If you have problems printing then copy and complete instead.
 * Homework **