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.

AQA Medicine and Health, is a new course book for students taking the AQA Medicine development study. It covers all the relevant requirements of the AQA specification but delivers them in the context of a motivating, enquiry-led approach to ensure that your courses are interesting and motivating to teach yet still deliver good results for your students.

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 as PDFs on CD ROM

This course is also supported by a series of Dynamic Learning CD-ROMs which provide digital activities for the whiteboard or computer networ and loadable to your VLE: CD 1 (People and Periods – ISBN 9780340946718)  and CD 2 (Review and revise ISBN 9780340946725) are already available. Details can be found on the Dynamic Learning website:  http://www.dynamic-learning.co.uk/RVE8611f929c89041a3a88f7f3dbf6825ee,,.aspx

CD 3, which is specific to AQA, features digital support for the AQA Exam Busters and will be coming in 2009.

• The Teacher's Book to support the official SHP textbook for AQA Medicine and Health. The course has been created by teachers working with SHP the leading curriculum development body using techniques which have beem trialled in real schools
• Introduction offers clear explanation of the AQA spec and how best to teach it.
• Worksheets 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 a carefully targetted Dynamic Learning CD-ROMs: CD 1 People and Periods; CD 2 Review and Revise; CD 3 AQA Exam Busters

Table of Contents:
A. Introduction
- The AQA Medicine specification and how to teach it
- Planning issues and lesson sequence plans
B. Section by section detailed notes and worksheets for the following chapters
1. Introduction - the big picture
2. Medicine in the ancient world
3. Medicine in the Middle Ages
4. The medical renaissance and the growth of modern medicine
5. Medicine in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
6. Review

About the Author(s):
Ian Dawson, Publications Director of the Schools History Project.
>Dale Banham (Series Editor), Humanities Adviser in Suffolk