Medicine long ago and advice today
Answers are for parents and teachers.
1
Seif has a sore throat. Name one thing that gives comfort and one thing that needs a grown-up.
Comfort: warm tea or a cold towel. Needs a grown-up: a fever, pain, or any medicine.
2
Write one fact, one fiction and one opinion about food.
Answers differ. Check each one is in the right group.
3
Sort: “Water helps us live”, “Cake is the best”, “Eating sweets makes you fly.”
Fact, opinion, fiction.
4
Draw the five steps for washing hands in order.
Wet, soap, rub for 20 seconds, rinse, dry.
5
Why was writing on papyrus important for medicine long ago?
People could keep what they learned and others could read it.