Medicine L10 - The Impact of William Harvey
This lesson contains:
- An overview of who William Harvey was and where he was from.
- An introduction into Harvey's thinking, using an image of a water pump and a dissected frog. Students can interpret how they led to his greatest discovery - the circulation of the blood.
- A task to use the information provided to study the improvements Harvey made and how he proved Galen wrong.
- An activity to study the reasons why Harvey was able to make the discoveries that he did and what factors led to them.
- A gap fill task to uncover what impact Harvey had on medicine.
- A plenary task to write 3 facts about certain key words, and another to write a PEE to compare Harvey to other key characters from the unit, including Vesalius and Sydenham.
Attachments:
- 1 x Powerpoint Presentation
- 2 x Publisher Files