16.1
Drugs and medicines
What a drug is, medicines and recreational drugs, the law, antibiotics and resistance, and how new medicines are tested.
16.2
Drugs and the nervous system
How nerve messages travel, stimulants and depressants, testing your reaction time, and addiction.
16.3
Alcohol
Where alcohol goes in the body, what it does in the short and long term, working out units, and the law.
16.4
Smoking, and drugs in pregnancy
What is in tobacco smoke, a smoking machine, smoking and the lungs and heart, vapes and second-hand smoke, and harm to an unborn baby.
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What this unit covers
Mapped to the KS3 national curriculum (Biology: health).
| Programme of study | Lesson |
|---|---|
| the effects of recreational drugs (including substance misuse) on behaviour, health and life processes | 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4 |
| the impact of exercise, asthma and smoking on the human gas exchange system | 16.4 (with 7.4) |
| gestation and birth, to include the effect of maternal lifestyle on the foetus through the placenta | 16.4 (with 10.3) |
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