UPD8

Good for teaching literacy skills

Jul 31st, 2013

An excellent way of drawing out opposing points to use in a piece of evaluation writing.

By the way - if you have trouble downloading the activity in Internet Explorer, try using a different browser such as Chrome - worked for me.

Reviewer: Rachel Dudman

Cant' download...again

Apr 14th, 2013

Another topic that I cannot download. Please sort this. Thanks

Reviewer: Naomi Boulter

Double Blind review

Mar 27th, 2013

Can not seem to download the activity sheets.

Reviewer: K B

Can't download it...

May 2nd, 2012

Reviewer: Rachel Carrington

Double Blind review

Apr 14th, 2012

I also cannot download the activity sheets. Sounds like it would have been a great activity!

Reviewer: Joy Devlin

Great activity

Oct 5th, 2011

This is a good activity that works well with low ability children. It may help to discuss advantages and disadvantages of human "guinea pigs" before setting them to the task.

Reviewer: Rachel Bell

Double Blind

Sep 19th, 2011

Pdf link doesn't work

Reviewer: Richard Johnson

Double Blind review

Apr 6th, 2011

I couldnt download the activity sheets

Reviewer: melanie murray

Double Blind

May 19th, 2010

A good staring point, which I adapted to use with my class. I pretended that they were all volunteers in a clinical trial and got them to ask questions that they would want answering. We then discussed their opinions on using human volunteers. The upd8 worksheets were excellent as a starting point and plenary.

Reviewer: Laura Errington

Double blind

Mar 13th, 2010

Good discussion topic, spent about 30 mins working through the option and then led on to some argumentative writing about what they had discussed. Students seemed to enjoy and it and it is good practice for when they come to their case study at GCSE

Reviewer: Kate White

biology aqa gcse science

Mar 3rd, 2010

used with year 10. takes the emphasis off the teacher. Pupils learned a lot about the process of introducing new drugs without 'working'. Opened up lots of interesting discussion.

Reviewer: lucy baddeley

Science

Oct 13th, 2009

this worked really well and pupils enjoyed the activities, I used BBC news clips to show pupils different opinions on drug testing

Reviewer: Alex Delporte

Bionic eye

Aug 7th, 2009

I use this resource as part of a research assignment into how human body parts can be replaced.

Reviewer: Nick Wiffen

new drugs

Jun 7th, 2009

Used with a mid-lower ability of disruptive Yr9 students. More interesting than a book based activity that even got most of the normally troublesome students involved. Some ideas a bit complex but would be excellent with a more motivated group.

Reviewer: susan humphreys

Cook

Mar 22nd, 2009

The UPD8 activities offer an exciting way of blending science into different contexts. I recently had problems with colleagues concentrating more on the context of cooking than the science involved. How can this problem be addressed?

Reviewer: Nqobile Nkala

Good video link

Mar 18th, 2009

I also showed a BBC clip of the 'guinea pigs' who suffered badly as he explains what went wrong and the consequences - made it more real than cartoon images on worksheets
http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/newsid_5120000/newsid_5122400/5122432.stm?bw=bb&mp=wm&news=1&bbcws=1

Reviewer: Neil Burrows

double blind

Feb 4th, 2009

Students really enjoyed this. It brought the topic alive and stimulated a focused discussion.

Reviewer: Anne-Marie Jones

Using with adult learners

Nov 2nd, 2008

My adult learners remembered this story being in the news. The task provided an excellent sitimulus for discusion.

Reviewer: Robert Duddington

Great

Nov 2nd, 2008

Have used this numerous times with a range of pupils from A* to G/U. They have all understood the topic well.
Fab resource!

Reviewer: ANITA KEEGAN

double blind

Jun 1st, 2008

supplemented with news articles from the BBC this sparked a very livlely and surprising dicussion with higher tier 21st century students. Pupils generally split into two camps for testing and against animal testing (but not human) due to the fact that humans are complient and therfore are aware of risk. Used when teaching B2 making risk and ethics at the centre of the students discussions

Reviewer: michaela Fagelman

Clinical Trials

May 13th, 2008

Helped pupils to understand the role of a placebo, and the different phases in clinical trials. With a high ability group prompted discussion on ethics of testing on humans

Reviewer: Rona Chellew

Double Blind review

Jan 9th, 2008

this was so borin i almost died!!!! :)

Reviewer: Pawel Jarecki

Double blind

Oct 30th, 2007

This activity generated good interest from a generally disaffected year 11 class!

Reviewer: Mohamed Babu Zainulabdeen

Double Blind

Jun 13th, 2007

Used this with a top set year 10 class. unfortunately it was the last lesson before work experience, so was a little difficult to get them settled. It generated loads of discussion and with hindsight, giving them a couple of articles to read didn't help with the activity. When doing this again, I think that I'll book a computer suite and let them do some research about alternatives to clinical trials on humans as they seemed a bit lost after saying that drugs shouldn't be tested but then didn't know what alternatives there were.

Reviewer: Joanne Golding

double blind

Jun 4th, 2007

My year 10 pupils loved this activity particularly as it linked real news stories. Further research was then undertakn on drug testing disasters

Reviewer: Kelly Susan

very good!!!

Mar 10th, 2007

i thought this was a fantastic resource to use as a main activity. it really allowed my year 10 students to discuss a lot of issues. i had the video which was talking about the same case that this worksheet is on so it was a good source for continuing what we started. however even if you don't have this video it will still work well.
Thanks

Reviewer: Nancy Asare

Double blind

Jan 25th, 2007

Used this activity with set 4 Y10's - very good, engendered lots of discussion and interest and was observed by HMI! Thanks very much!

Reviewer: Katherine Swinson

hi

Nov 16th, 2006

gr8 --I used it and it works well--with all year 10--I used it and kids liked it.

Reviewer: sunil patnaik

all topics in general

Nov 9th, 2006

I find your site an absolute gem from the wide range of topics to their content and format.Keep up the GOOD WORK and THANK YOU

Reviewer: christine young

Double Blind

Jun 21st, 2006

A good activity. It generated plenty of discussion. We used it with year 9s as part of a preKS4 course. Linking it to "How science works" for KS4. It was interesting to see how they were influenced by others in the group. It gave me a good opportunity to introduce the idea of evidence and changing opinions.

Reviewer: David Cole

Debate Sparker

Jun 17th, 2006

Used this activity with my Year 9 following our own double blind trial on the effects of caffeine on heart rate, reaction time & memory. The activity really sparked some debate on whether humans should be used as guinea pigs in drug trials. It is bang up-to-date and the pupils really enjoyed it.

Reviewer: STEVE NIXON

Double Blind review

Apr 10th, 2006

(note from editor: must be a local problem, the pdf seems to download fine).

I have been hoping for an upd8 science activity on this topic. Unfortunately page 1 didn't download ("too many arguments"). The rest looks good.
Is there another way that I can get to view page 1?
Thanks
Maureen Trotter

Reviewer: Maureen Trotter