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Year 10 / GCSE · Science

Biology: Health And Diseases

Year 10 / GCSE learners practise health disease and the immune system gcse biology.

The activities include Compare Coronary Heart Disease Treatments, Describe Cancer, Describe the Role of the Immune System, and related practice. The checked support below includes video, teach, worksheet, teaching. Open a resource in its provider's website and choose the format that best helps the learner explain the idea independently.

Activities covered

  • Compare Coronary Heart Disease Treatments
  • Describe Cancer
  • Describe the Role of the Immune System
  • Discuss the Risk Factors for Cancer
  • Discuss the Treatments for Coronary Heart Disease
  • Explore the Role of the Immune System
  • Identify Communicable Diseases
  • Understand Coronary Heart Disease
  • Understand Disease and the Immune System
  • Understand Drugs and Drug Trials
  • Understand the Differences between Communicable Diseases
  • Understand the Importance of Healthy Living
  • Understand the Role of the Immune System

Checked learning resources

  • Cardiovascular disease

    Oak National Academy · Video · Opens on the provider website

    Oak KS4 Biology lesson describing atheroma and coronary heart disease and evaluating treatment choices including statins, stents, coronary bypass surgery, replacement valves, heart transplants and artificial hearts.

  • Non-specific defences of the human body against pathogens

    Oak National Academy · Video · Opens on the provider website

    Oak KS4 Biology lesson covering the body’s non-specific physical and chemical defences against pathogens, including skin, mucus and cilia, stomach acid and phagocytosis.

  • Communicable diseases and pathogens

    Oak National Academy · Video · Opens on the provider website

    Oak Year 10 Biology lesson distinguishing communicable and non-communicable disease and identifying bacteria, viruses, fungi and protists as pathogen groups, with causes, transmission routes, examples and risk factors.

  • Development of new medicines

    Oak National Academy · Video · Opens on the provider website

    Oak KS4 Biology lesson on discovering and developing medicines, preclinical testing, clinical trials with healthy volunteers and patients, dosage, toxicity, efficacy, placebos, blind trials and double-blind trials.

  • Risk factors for non-communicable diseases

    Oak National Academy · Video · Opens on the provider website

    Oak KS4 Biology lesson explaining how diet, exercise, smoking, alcohol and other lifestyle factors change the incidence of non-communicable diseases and why health is a spectrum rather than a simple healthy/unhealthy sta

  • AQA Biology Unit 4.2 Cancer Cover Lesson Pack

    Twinkl · Teach · Account may be required

    This AQA GCSE lesson pack uses pupil activities to explain uncontrolled cell division, benign and malignant tumours and lifestyle and genetic cancer risk factors.

  • AQA Infection and Response Lesson 3: Human Defence Systems

    Twinkl · Teach · Account may be required

    This GCSE lesson pack explains physical defences, phagocytosis, antigens, antibodies and how vaccination supports the immune response.

  • Risk factors for non-communicable diseases flashcards

    Cognito · Worksheet · Opens on the provider website

    GCSE Biology interactive flashcards on poor diet, lack of exercise, smoking, alcohol, stress and sleep as disease risk factors, plus obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and effects on wider society.