Informed Health Choices Primary School Resources
A textbook and a teachers’ guide for 10 to 12-year-olds. The textbook includes a comic, exercises and classroom activities.
| 0 Comments | EvaluatedEbm@school – a curriculum of critical health literacy for secondary school students
A curriculum based on the concept of evidence-based medicine, which consists of six modules.
| 0 Comments | EvaluatedThinking, talking, doing science
An experimental educational intervention in teaching science at primary schools.
| 0 Comments | EvaluatedTips for learners of evidence-based medicine: 1. relative risk reduction, absolute risk reductions and number needed to treat
Relative risk reduction, absolute risk reduction and number needed to treat.
| 0 CommentsTips for teachers of evidence-based medicine: Relative risk reduction, absolute risk reduction and numbers needed to treat
Tips for teachers of evidence-based medicine: 1. Relative risk reduction, absolute risk reduction and number needed to treat.
| 0 CommentsThe DIY evaluation guide
The Educational Endowment Foundation’s DIY Evaluation Guide for teachers introduces the key principles of educational evaluation.
| 0 CommentsRandomisation explained in 1 minute
A 1 minute animation produced by Cancer Research UK, explaining the term ‘randomised trial’.
| 0 CommentsTeaching Tips: randomisation for trials
Chris Del Mar describes a group exercise that enables students to appreciate how trials work, and how they can go wrong.
| 0 CommentsTeaching Tip: Understanding Regression to the mean in preparation for teaching EBM
Chris Del Mar uses dice to simulate the natural fluctuations in pain, and to illustrate regression-to-the mean by re-testing the outliers.
| 0 CommentsDancing statistics: Explaining variance
A 5-minute film demonstrating the statistical concept of variance through dance.
| 0 CommentsDancing statistics: sampling & standard error
A 5-minute film demonstrating the statistical concept of sampling and standard error through dance.
| 0 CommentsDancing statistics: correlation
A 4-minute film demonstrating the statistical concept of correlation through dance.
| 0 CommentsDon’t jump to conclusions, #Ask for Evidence
An introduction to the ‘Ask for Evidence’ initiative launched by ‘Sense about Science’ in 2016.
| 0 CommentsEnglish National Curriculum vs Key Concepts – Key Stage 3
A linked spreadsheet showing how the Key Concepts map to the Science National Curriculum in England at Key Stage 3 (ages 11-14).
| 0 CommentsBuilding evidence into education
Ben Goldacre explains why appropriate infrastructure is need to do clinical trials of sufficient rigour and size to yield reliable results.
| 0 CommentsThe Man Who Swallowed The Pea, and Other Tall Tales
Tamara Ingamells’ lesson plan using the claim that MMR vaccination causes autism to help teenagers understand the importance of biases.
| 0 CommentsDragon Lesson Plan to investigate multivariate categorical data
Investigating multivariate data by sorting and organising a set of dragon cards to uncover information about the set.
| 0 CommentsGeneration R – Pictionary research activity
GenerationR’s version of Pictionary using research concepts instead of usual game cards, allocated in different levels of difficulty.
| 0 CommentsGeneration R – Clinical trials card-sorting exercise
Card-sorting exercise developed by GenerationR to familiarise children and young people with jargon terms used by clinical researchers.
| 0 CommentsClinical Research Workshop
‘Clinical Research Workshop’ developed for young people by the Centre of the Cell.
| 0 CommentsDetectives in the classroom
Five modules of materials for promoting epidemiology among high school students.
| 0 CommentsMaking the most of the evidence in education
A pamphlet to guide people using research evidence when deliberating about educational policies.
| 0 CommentsCaffeine Soft Drinks affect Human Heart Rate. Lesson Plan
A lesson to illustrate how medical researchers study the effects of drugs on people.
| 0 CommentsLife saving maths: How does vaccination work?
Vaccinating a large enough proportion of children means everyone is protected, including those who can't be vaccinated.
| 0 CommentsHow to work out whether bacon sandwiches are harmful
The headline said there is a 20% greater risk of getting bowel cancer if you eat bacon sandwiches! Are they right?
| 0 CommentsExplaining the unbiased creation of treatment comparison groups and blinded outcome assessment
A class were given coloured sweets and asked to design an experiment to find out whether red sweets helped children to think more quickly.
| 0 CommentsInvestigating how to remove bacteria from hands
Investigate the best way to remove bacteria from your hands.
| 0 CommentsGenerationR – The importance of involving children and young people in research
3/3, 22-min video at the launch of GenerationR, a network of young people who advise researchers.
| 0 CommentsGeneration R – The importance of medical research in children and young people
2/3, 35-min video at the launch of GenerationR, a network of young people who advise researchers.
| 0 CommentsMisconceptions about screening
Screening should not be for everyone or all diseases. It should only be offered when it is likely to do good than harm.
| 0 CommentsMMR: the facts in the case of Dr Andrew Wakefield
This 15-page cartoon explains the events surrounding the MMR controversy, and provides links to the relevant evidence.
| 5 Comments‘Ask for Evidence’ lesson plan
A lesson plan and resources to give 13-16 year olds the opportunity to explore if what they see, read, and hear is true.
| 0 CommentsProtected: Key Concepts for Key Stage 3
In this document, we show how the Key Concepts map across to Key Stage 3 of the English science curriculum.
| 0 CommentsUnderstanding Confidence Intervals
A 4-min video explaining the concept of confidence intervals and how they are calculated, with helpful diagrams and examples.
| 0 CommentsA simple fair testing plan for science lessons
A short worksheet to help students devise a Fair Test.
| 0 CommentsWorksheet for planning fair tests
A TES worksheet to guide primary school children in planning a Fair Test.
| 0 CommentsDrug trials in healthy volunteers
A 6-minute video illustrating an early phase clinical trial in healthy volunteers.
| 0 CommentsHow are medicinal drugs tested?
A group of text files for teaching students about how medicinal drugs are tested.
| 0 CommentsDesigning a fair test
Using an everyday example to try to help students realise what fair testing involves.
| 0 CommentsMethodology of clinical trials
Eurordis training on the methodology of clinical trials for representatives of patients’ organisations.
| 0 CommentsThe Fair Test (controlling variables)
TES PowerPoint presentation of 9 slides about the importance of controlling variables (i.e. conducting a fair test).
| 0 CommentsFair testing PowerPoint
A TES, 15-slide PowerPoint presentation by Keith Jarvis about Fair Testing, for 11-14 year olds.
| 0 CommentsInvestigation: Designing a fair test
A teaching tool for teachers to illustrate how to carry out fair tests.
| 0 CommentsLesson plan for teaching secondary school students about double-blind trials
This lesson plan provides resources to run stimulating activities about fair tests of treatments in a classroom setting.
| 0 CommentsViva la Evidence!
A brilliant song and video by James McCormack explaining the basics of evidence-based medicine.
| 0 CommentsA poem about regression to the mean
Regression to the mean can lead us to think that an intervention has been effective when it hasn't. This poem illustrates it nicely.
| 0 CommentsTherapeutic Touch: a schoolgirl shows how to test it
This 5-minute video provides an example of applying scientific method to dodgy treatment claims.
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