Informed Health Choices Primary School Resources
A textbook and a teachers’ guide for 10 to 12-year-olds. The textbook includes a comic, exercises and classroom activities.
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Ebm@school – a curriculum of critical health literacy for secondary school students
A curriculum based on the concept of evidence-based medicine, which consists of six modules.
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Philosophy for Children (P4C)
P4C promotes high-quality classroom dialogue in response to children’s own questions about shared stories, films and other stimuli.
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Thinking, talking, doing science
An experimental educational intervention in teaching science at primary schools.
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How can you know if the spoon works?
Short, small group exercise on how to design a fair comparison using the "claim" that a spoon helps retain the bubbles in champagne.
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English National Curriculum vs Key Concepts – Key Stage 3
A linked spreadsheet showing how the Key Concepts map to the Science National Curriculum in England at Key Stage 3 (ages 11-14).
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Calling Bullshit Syllabus
Carl Bergstrom's and Jevin West's nice syllabus for 'Calling Bullshit'.
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It’s just a phase
A resource explaining the differences between different trial phases.
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Strictly Cochrane: a quickstep around research and systematic reviews
An interactive resource explaining how systematic and non-systematic reviews differ, and the importance of keeping reviews up to date.
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The Princess and the p-value
An interactive resource introducing reporting and interpretation of statistics in controlled trials.
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Teach Yourself Cochrane
Tells the story behind Cochrane and the challenges finding good quality evidence to produce reliable systematic reviews.
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The Man Who Swallowed The Pea, and Other Tall Tales
Tamara Ingamells’ lesson plan using the claim that MMR vaccination causes autism to help teenagers understand the importance of biases.
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Dragon Lesson Plan to investigate multivariate categorical data
Investigating multivariate data by sorting and organising a set of dragon cards to uncover information about the set.
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Fast Stats to explain absolute risk, relative risk and Number Needed to Treat (NNT).
A 15-slide presentation on ‘Fast Stats’ to explain absolute risk, relative risk and Number Needed to Treat (NNT) prepared by PharmedOut.
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Unsubstantiated and overstated claims of efficacy
A 32-slide presentation on misleading advertisements and FDA warnings prepared by PharmedOut.
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Critical appraisal
University of New South Wales Medical Statistics Tutorial 4 addresses Critical Appraisal.
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Probability and tests of statistical significance
University of New South Wales Medical Statistics Tutorial 6 addresses ‘Probability and tests of statistical significance’.
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Bias – the biggest enemy
University of New South Wales Medical Stats Online Tutorial 5 addresses ‘Bias - the biggest enemy’.
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Generation R – Pictionary research activity
GenerationR’s version of Pictionary using research concepts instead of usual game cards, allocated in different levels of difficulty.
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Generation R – Clinical trials card-sorting exercise
Card-sorting exercise developed by GenerationR to familiarise children and young people with jargon terms used by clinical researchers.
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Clinical Research Workshop
‘Clinical Research Workshop’ developed for young people by the Centre of the Cell.
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Introduction to Evidence-Based Medicine
Bill Caley’s 26 slides with notes used as an ‘Introduction to Evidence-Based Medicine’.
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Applying evidence to patients
A 27-minute talk on ‘Applying Evidence to Patients’, illustrated by 17 slides, with notes.
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2×2 tables and relative risk
A 10-min talk on ‘2x2 tables and Relative Risk’, illustrated by 14 slides, with notes.
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Appraisal of evidence and interpretation of results
A 14-min talk on ‘Appraisal of the Evidence and Interpretation of the Results’, illustrated by 19 slides, with notes.
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Basic principles of randomised trials, and validity
A 8-min talk on ‘Basic principles of Randomised Trials, and Validity’, illustrated by 15 slides, with notes.
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Defining clinical questions
An 8-min talk on ‘Defining Clinical Questions’ illustrated by 10 slides, with notes.
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A way to teach about systematic reviews
81 slides used by David Nunan (Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, Oxford) to present ‘A way to teach about systematic reviews’.
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Applying the evidence
Six key slides produced by the University of Western Australia on applying evidence in practice.
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Appraising the evidence
Six key slides produced by the University of Western Australia to introduce critical appraisal.
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Detectives in the classroom
Five modules of materials for promoting epidemiology among high school students.
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Applying the results of trials and systematic reviews to individual patients
Paul Glasziou uses 28 slides to address ‘Applying the results of trials and systematic reviews to individual patients’.
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10 Components of effective clinical epidemiology: How to get started
PDF & Podcast of 1-hr talk by Carl Heneghan (Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, Oxford) on effective clinical epidemiology.
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Making the most of the evidence in education
A pamphlet to guide people using research evidence when deliberating about educational policies.
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Critical appraisal of clinical trials
Slides developed by Amanda Burls for an interactive presentation covering the most important features of well controlled trials.
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Caffeine Soft Drinks affect Human Heart Rate. Lesson Plan
A lesson to illustrate how medical researchers study the effects of drugs on people.
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Life saving maths: How does vaccination work?
Vaccinating a large enough proportion of children means everyone is protected, including those who can't be vaccinated.
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How to work out whether bacon sandwiches are harmful
The headline said there is a 20% greater risk of getting bowel cancer if you eat bacon sandwiches! Are they right?
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Investigating how to remove bacteria from hands
Investigate the best way to remove bacteria from your hands.
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How Science Works
Definitions of terms that students have to know for 'How Science Works' and associated coursework, ISAs, etc
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‘Ask for Evidence’ lesson plan
A lesson plan and resources to give 13-16 year olds the opportunity to explore if what they see, read, and hear is true.
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Interactive PowerPoint Presentation about Clinical Trials
An interactive Powerpoint presentation for people thinking about participating in a clinical trial or interested in learning about them.
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Protected: Key Concepts for Key Stage 3
In this document, we show how the Key Concepts map across to Key Stage 3 of the English science curriculum.
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Overview of study designs
11 slides and a 4-min commentary overviewing study designs for clinical research. (from Univ Mass Med School).
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Systematic Reviews
3 slides and a 4-min commentary about systematic reviews and meta-analyses (from Univ Mass Med School).
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Relative risk, absolute risk and number-needed-to-treat
8 slides and a 4-min commentary on relative risk, absolute risk, and number needed to treat (from Univ Mass Med School).
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Attrition bias, publication bias, comparator bias and commercial bias
6 slides and a 3-min commentary on attrition bias, publication bias, comparator bias and commercial bias (from Univ Mass Med School).
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A simple fair testing plan for science lessons
A short worksheet to help students devise a Fair Test.
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Worksheet for planning fair tests
A TES worksheet to guide primary school children in planning a Fair Test.
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Drug trials in healthy volunteers
A 6-minute video illustrating an early phase clinical trial in healthy volunteers.
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How are medicinal drugs tested?
A group of text files for teaching students about how medicinal drugs are tested.
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Designing a fair test
Using an everyday example to try to help students realise what fair testing involves.
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Introduction to Critical Appraisal
30-slide introduction by Jason Curtis, to Critical Appraisal.
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Methodology of clinical trials
Eurordis training on the methodology of clinical trials for representatives of patients’ organisations.
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The Fair Test (controlling variables)
TES PowerPoint presentation of 9 slides about the importance of controlling variables (i.e. conducting a fair test).
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Fair testing PowerPoint
A TES, 15-slide PowerPoint presentation by Keith Jarvis about Fair Testing, for 11-14 year olds.
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Investigation: Designing a fair test
A teaching tool for teachers to illustrate how to carry out fair tests.
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Disease outcomes vs. patient-relevant outcomes
An e-Learning module consisting of 3 slides and 2-min commentary on why it is important to treat patients, not numbers from tests.
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Evaluating Online Health Information
A 30 minute e-Learning presentation by Medline Plus explaining how to evaluate health claims found on the internet.
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Lesson plan for teaching secondary school students about double-blind trials
This lesson plan provides resources to run stimulating activities about fair tests of treatments in a classroom setting.
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