LAMP Topic Brief 7: Health and Hygiene

This topic brief was published as part of the ASE’s LAMP Project. The brief was developed for third year pupils following a Nuffield Secondary Science course. It was later trialled in a variety of secondary schools with students of average and below average ability in the 13 to 16 age range.

Aims
1. To develop an understanding of the fundamentals of health and the factors which affect it.
2. To encourage the desire and ability of students to search for information in books and to browse through books.
3. To enable a working relationship to develop between students and teacher
4. To encourage students to work together constructively exchanging experiences and deyeloping ideas.
5. To provide an opportunity for discussion of some social health problems: venereal diseases, smoking, alcohol and drugs.

Contents
1. Our needs for survival
2. Growing microbes
3. Types of microbe
4. Preserving food
5. Poisons
6. The human skin
7. The skin on grapes
8. The science of skin
9. Care of the skin
10. Blood – its work in defence
11. Heart and lungs
12. Immunity and blood groups
13. Diseases
14. Venereal diseases
15. Smoking, drinking drugs
16. Teeth
17. Balance of life – mental health

HEALTH and SAFETY
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