Medicine and ICT Lesson Ideas

Worksheet 1

These questions can be used with the mini-website available from the menu on the left.

This worksheet asks questions about the use of ICT in medicine.

Worksheet 2

This worksheet asks students to research recent news stories about ICT and Medicine which have been reported on in the news.

Students are asked to read at least three current news stories, answer a set of questions and then report their findings back to the class.

Useful to ensure that students get an idea of the use of how ICT is used in medicine in a real life context

Worksheet 3

Students are asked to complete the text about different ICT and medicine by filling in the gaps with the correct word.

Worksheet 4

This worksheet asks students to make a comparison between how things were done prior to technology and how they are now done using technology.

They are also asked to consider the advantages and disadvantages of each method.

Worksheet 5

This task asks students to talk to parents, older friends, neighbours etc and find out about how they feel that technology has changed the field of medicine.

They are asked to write a short essay about their research and present a balanced argument.

This is an ideal task to set for homework

Worksheet 6

This worksheet asks students to write a brief set of notes for themselves onto 'post-it notes' about the use of ICT in medicine.

Worksheet 7

What am I?

Students are given descriptions related to this topic and asked to identify what is being referred to.

Worksheet 8

Agony Aunt task

Students are put into the role of an agony aunt who has to answer a set of letters about technology and medicine concerns that readers have written in about.