The Black Death - Full Unit of Work - Key Stage 3

Six lessons, including PowerPoints and handouts.

This is an important unit for fostering an understanding of how modern evidence-based medicine works.

Students will explore the history of this pandemic including causes, responses and consequences through time, alongside two source work lessons.

There are various links to critical thinking embedded within the lessons, including

• Different types of explanations, including a contrast between naturalistic explanations versus supernatural explanations, evidence-based scientific explanations versus explanations grounded in superstition and scapegoating.
• The converse fallacy
• Improving understanding of causation and consequence through classifying different consequence types and avoiding monocausal explanations
• How conspiratorial thinking emerges during public health crises