TEACHING RESOURCES INFORMATION
TITLE OF TEACHING RESOURCE
Medicines and You
NAME OF AUTHOR(S)
Marion Palmer (educational consultant)
NAME OF PRODUCER
Irish Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Association
TYPE OF PRODUCT
Downloadable material
LEVEL OF CHEMISTRY KNOWLEDGE
Medium
PEDAGOGICAL APPROACH
Cooperative learning, Peer education, Experiential learning
SUBJECT AREA
Life Chemistry, Health Science, Industrial Chemistry
TARGET GROUP LEVEL
Upper Secondary School
LANGUAGE/S OF TEACHING RESOURCES
English
DESCRIPTION
Medicines and You comprises seven units covering a number of different themes all relating to medicines. To facilitate teachers using the material with students, each unit has a similar structure:
• teacher guidelines
• student information sheets (except in Managing Your Minor Ailments Effectively)
• student activity sheets
• glossary
The teacher guidelines provide the background to each unit, identify appropriate learning
outcomes, and through the order of the activities, provide a suggested teaching strategy.
Appropriate student activities and resources are also suggested in the teacher guidelines and on the student information sheets. Active learning is facilitated through the suggested activities. Appropriate resources identified include booklets, website addresses, appropriate visits and/or visitors and other readily available free material.
The glossary will help students become familiar with relevant terms. The first time in each unit a word in the glossary is met it is highlighted. Each unit has its own glossary, as part of the student information pack. The glossary should be copied for student use.
There is full flexibility within each unit. For example, although two activities may be provided on one page, it is possible to copy just those activities that suit the school’s programme.
In the Medicines and disease unit, three common diseases are covered - infections, asthma and cancer. The teaching pack is one that could be used in a cross-curricular manner to underscore the relevance of chemistry/science to everyday life.
COMMENTS
This pack is recommended for its cross-curricular approach. It shows the importance of pharmaceutical chemistry in healthcare and makes links between chemistry and other aspects of the students lives.
It has been restructured from the original CD package to a fully web accessible resource.
NAME OF THE REVIEWING ORGANISATION
Limerick Institute of Technology
Comments about this Publication
Your comments are welcome
Date: 2013.02.03
Posted by José Ángel Ruiz García (Spain)
Message: It is an excellent and very complete resource and it is really helpful to deepen into chemistry applications in the medicine and health fields. Resources about vaccination, infectious diseases, new medicines, pharmaceutics industry, etc are remarkably interesting. Teachers can really profit from this resource bank because of its multiple applications within the classroom. Two positive aspects are worthy to highlight; a) its seven units contain downloadable materials so that you do not have to work on-line and b) it contains a rich variety of links to expand our knowledge.
This resource really helps teacher to prepare teaching materials.