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Home Lessons KS4 Antibiotics

KS4 Antibiotics

This section contains a series of educational resources for young adults aged 15-18 and explores the use of antibiotics and the rise of resistant bacterial strains.

Last Updated: 13 August 2021
Medium English Antibiotic, Antibiotic development, Antibiotic resistance, Broad spectrum, Horizontal gene transfer, Narrow spectrum, Vertical gene transfer, Viruses
  • Overview

What will you learn:

The e-Bug antibiotic lesson plan explores how antibiotics work and how bacteria differ from viruses or human cells:

  • Animations and a student worksheet describe how antibiotic resistance arises and spreads.
  • A presentation covers antibiotic discovery and resistance.
  • A quiz allows you to test your students' knowledge on antibiotics before or after the lesson.
  • National data allows students to compare their answers to a wider population.
  • Finally, students use statistical tests to analyse antibiotic resistance data.

Learning Objectives:

  • Antibiotics do not work on viruses, as bacteria and viruses have different structures.
  • Bacteria are continually adapting to develop ways of not being killed by antibiotics, this is called antibiotic resistance.
  • Taking antibiotics also affects your useful bacteria, not just the ones causing an infection.
  • Antibiotic resistant bacteria can be carried by healthy or ill people and can be passed on silently to others.
  • Antibiotic resistance spreads between different bacteria within our body.
  • Controlling antibiotic resistance is everyone's responsibility including you.

Requirements:

  • Graph paper for completion of SW2

Curriculum Links:

  • Science: Working Scientifically, Experimental skills and investigations, Analysis and evaluation
  • RSHE: Health & Prevention
  • GCSE: Health and Social Care, Factors affecting health and wellbeing, health promotion
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Complete Sheets

KS4 Antibiotics - Complete pack

Teacher Sheets

Antibiotic Lesson Plan - Teacher Sheet 1

Antibiotic Answer Sheet - Teacher Sheet 3

Antibiotic Answer Sheet - Teacher Sheet 2

Student Worksheets

Antibiotic Fact or Fiction - Student Handout 3

Antibiotic - Student Worksheet 1

Antibiotic - Student Worksheet 2

Multimedia

Discovery of Antibiotics PowerPoint

Antibiotics Fact or Fiction Quiz PowerPoint

Science Debate Kit: Antibiotic Resistance

Curriculum Tags

Analysis And Evaluation

GCSE

Health & Prevention

RSHE

Science

Working Scientifically
AQAEdexcelExperimental Skills And InvestigationsFactors Affecting Health And WellbeingHealth And Social CareHealth PromotionHuman BiologyOCRWJEC

Lesson Tags

Antibiotic

Antibiotic Development

Antibiotic Resistance

Broad Spectrum

Narrow Spectrum

Viruses
Horizontal Gene TransferVertical Gene Transfer

Department for Education Recommendation

The Department for Education have listed e-Bug in their guidance for education and childcare during coronavirus. e-Bug resources are recommended for teaching Infection prevention and control topics, including hand and respiratory hygiene.

NICE Endorsement

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) recommends that schools, educational and residential settings for children and young people, use Public Health England’s e-Bug resources to teach about hygiene, infections and antibiotics. e-Bug supports implementation of NICE guidance on antimicrobial stewardship: changing risk-related behaviours in the general population (NG63).

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e-Bug is a free educational resource, operated by Public Health England, which contributes to the government’s ongoing action plan to tackle antimicrobial resistance. e-Bug resources make learning about microbes, antibiotics and the spread and treatment of infection, engaging and accessible.

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