Summary:

The series

SHP Smarter History is the new approach to GCSE from the Schools History Project. It offers interesting lessons and comprehensive content plus step by step coaching in exam skills – using SHP’s Exam Buster approach. This is the best of both worlds from the experts who know what good teaching is about and also know what the SHP specifications are all about.

The Schools History Project is the leading curriculum development body for history, and are the architects of the SHP approach and the SHP specifications. 

This Teacher's Book provides:
- Clear explanation of the specification and how best to teach it
- Guidance on lesson planning to get the most out of the course and to keep pupils motivated
- Detailed notes on how to use each aspect of the Student's book
- Worksheets to support all the key tasks in the Student's book
- Exam Busters worksheets ('Meet the examiner' and 'Smarter Revisions) to empower and equip students for independent learning and exam success
- Overview of the contents of the associated Dynamic Learning CD ROMs
- All the worksheets and lesson plans on CD ROM

• This Teacher's Resource Book supports the official SHP textbook for OCR Medicine and Health Through Time (SHP Smarter History). The course has been created by teachers working with SHP, the leading curriculum development body using techniques which have been trialled in schools.
• The Introduction and Lesson Sequence Plans provide a clear explanation of the OCR spec and how best to teach it.
• Activity Sheets and teaching notes to support all key aspects of the course, including support for the 'Smarter Revision' and 'Meet the Examiner' features.
• Each aspect of the course is also supported by three Dynamic Learning resources: 1 People and Periods; 2 Review and Revise; 3 Exam Busters.

Table of Contents:
Introduction
Lesson Sequence Plans
Section 1: The Big Story
Section 2: Ancient medicine
Section 3: The Middle Ages
Section 4: The Renaissance
Section 5: Medicine in 1800
Section 6: Fighting disease after 1800
Section 7: Public health after 1800
Section 8: Surgery since 1800
Section 9: Hospitals
Section 10: Conclusions
Activity Sheets for each section.

About the Author(s):
Ian Dawson, Publications Director of the Schools History Project.

Dale Banham, Humanities Adviser in Suffolk.

Contributors:
Adviser: Muriel Wilkins, SHP Adviser, teaches OCR History in Frome, Somerset.

Readership:
Students and teachers