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.

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• 1 x Powerpoint Presentation

• 2 x Powerpoint Files