AQA Medicine and Health Through Time (SHP Smarter History series)

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.

SHP 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.

At every relevant stage through the book there are 'ExamBuster' features ('Meet the Examiner' and 'Smarter Revision') that help blend exam preparation with historical learning so that by the end of the course students understand not only the period and its issues but also how they will be expected to think and write about this for the examination. What does this mean in practice?



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All the required specification content - we haven't skipped bits!
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Meet the Examiner spreads show students how to tackle the specific types of questions in the awarding body's examinations. AQA examiners and markers have been involved from the outset in planning and checking this course.
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Smarter Revision units, built up from the beginning of the book, enable students to build their learning from the outset, using a range of techniques such as Memory Maps (recording key features of each period), Living Graphs (recording the development of themes across time), Role of Individual Charts, Concept maps (for charting the inter-play of factors), Road maps, Digital Camera revision activities etc.
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A strong sense of overview using Medical Moments in Time spreads showing key medical features of 200AD, 1348, 1665, 1848 and 1935.
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A strong visual design, increasing the accessibility of the material.
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A strong and varied range of activities, meeting the needs of different kinds of learners with further support available from www.Thinkinghistory.co.uk .Why choose Smarter History?
Because:
- it offers varied pace and style of learning which is essential to keep your students motivated over a long period.
- it provides engaging exam preparation techniques that have been thoroughly trialled in real schools with real pupils
- it is written by experienced teachers rather than remote examiners who know how to keep pupils motivated
- it is backed by the leading curriculum development body for history - the Schools History Project - who are the architects of the SHP approach and the SHP specifications
- SHP's provide a training programme - a national conference plus regional inset - to support you as you introduce this course in your school.

Dynamic Learning

This course is supported by a series of Dynamic Learning CD-ROMs which provide digital activities for the whiteboard or computer network: 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 home page: http://www.dynamic-learning.co.uk/RVE8611f929c89041a3a88f7f3dbf6825ee,,.aspx

CD 3 (Exam Busters IBN 9780340991411) will be coming in 2010.