1. Level 2 BTEC Applied Science
Unit 7: Health Applications of Life Science

2. Swab / Hand Agar Plates:
Observe your plates.
Draw a diagram of what you can see.
3. What did you find? Write a sentence or two about each experiment.
Can you explain your results using science?

3. Lesson Objectives
Observe agar plates from last lesson and write a conclusion.
Describe how vaccines work
Understand the issues surrounding the use of vaccines.

4. Activity 1
Write a sentence that describes what a vaccine is.

5. Vaccines

6. Vaccinations What diseases are we routinely vaccination against?
Can you make a list?...

7. NHS Vaccination Schedule
Read the NHS Vaccination Schedule, which gives details of all the vaccines administered throughout your life.
Transfer the information onto a timeline.

8. Timeline:

9. Advantages Why do we have all these vaccines? What is the benefit to
The individuals?
Society as a whole.

10. Disadvantages What are the possible downsides to having vaccinations?
Discuss…
Possible side effects
May not be 100% effective in all cases
Mistrust in vaccines after links to other disorders.

11. MMR
Measles
Mumps
Rubella

12. MMR and Autism

13. Anti-Vaccine

14. What do you think? Your task is to write an essay about vaccines.
The title of the essay should be:
To Vaccinate or not?
Include the following:
An introduction to what vaccines are (how they work, common vaccines etc…)
The advantages to vaccinations
The reasons people might not trust vaccines.
A conclusion. (Sum up the issue and state your opinion, and why)