Year 9 · Science

Health

Year 9 learners practise effects of drugs alcohol and smoking on the body.

The activities include Compare the Effects of Alcohol, Smoking and Drugs on the Human Body, Describe How Microorganisms Can Cause Disease, Describe the Effects of Alcohol on the Human Body, and related practice. The checked support below includes video, worksheet, teaching, lesson. Open a resource in its provider's website and choose the format that best helps the learner explain the idea independently.

Activities covered

Compare the Effects of Alcohol, Smoking and Drugs on the Human Body
Describe How Microorganisms Can Cause Disease
Describe the Effects of Alcohol on the Human Body
Discuss How to Protect Ourselves Against Infections
Explain How Microorganisms Can Be Harmful
Explain the Effects of Alcohol on the Human Body
Explain the Effects of Drugs on the Human Body
Understand the Damage to Health of Smoking
Understand the Effects of Smoking on an Unborn Baby

Checked learning resources

Differences between infectious and non-infectious disease

Oak National Academy · Video · Opens on the provider website

I can describe some common infectious and non-infectious diseases and their causes. This KS3 science video lesson directly teaches the concepts and scientific action required by "Describe How Microorganisms Can Cause Dis
Recreational drug use: depressants

Oak National Academy · Video · Opens on the provider website

You can explain the effects of alcohol on the body in both the short and long term. This KS3 science video lesson directly teaches the concepts and scientific action required by "Describe the Effects of Alcohol on the Hu
Smoking

Oak National Academy · Video · Opens on the provider website

I can describe the effects of smoking on the human body. This KS3 science video lesson directly teaches the concepts and scientific action required by "Understand the Damage to Health of Smoking".
Health and disease - KS3 Biology

BBC Bitesize · Worksheet · Opens on the provider website

BBC KS3 science teaching, examples and practice checks for Health; selected for the concepts in "Compare the Effects of Alcohol, Smoking and Drugs on the Human Body" after reviewing the full worksheet context.
Disease and drugs: lesson sequence

Oak National Academy · Teaching · Opens on the provider website

This KS3 Oak unit provides sequenced teaching on Disease and drugs. It includes the lesson objective closest to the full worksheet context.
Disease and drugs

Oak National Academy · Lesson · Opens on the provider website

Year 9 Science resource matched to effects of drugs alcohol and smoking on the body.
Drugs, Alcohol and Smoking

YouTube — Revision Monkey · Video · Opens on the provider website

KS3 revision compares short- and long-term effects of alcohol, tobacco and drugs on body systems.
Antibiotics, Antivirals and Vaccines

YouTube — Amoeba Sisters · Video · Opens on the provider website

Biology lesson explains how medicines, vaccination and prevention measures reduce infectious disease.