1. Starter:
KEY QUESTION: Is there a difference between fitness and health?
Discuss the health and fitness profiles of the characters on the cards.
Health profiles available at makingsenseofhealth.org.uk

2. Learning goals: Understand the difference between health and fitness.
Recall the 4 types of pathogens that cause disease.

3. Health
The definition of health by the World Health Organization (WHO) is:
"Health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity."

4. Disease
any deviation from the normal structure or function of any body part, organ, or system that is manifested by a characteristic set of symptoms.

5. Challenge: On the cards write as many diseases as you can.
How could you sort those diseases?
Infectious/non-infectious, part of body, caused those.

6. Categorising diseases
Self-inflicted
Deficiency
Sexually transmitted
Associated with poor/rich countries
Mental or physical
Age
Zoonotic
Genetic
Infectious
Which body part they effect
Prion diseases

7. Parasites
Organisms that live in or on another organism (the host).

8. Tongue-eating fish parasite!

10. Pathogens Organisms that cause disease. Viruses Fungi Bacteria
Protoctista

11. Challenge
Using the textbooks available and the internet complete the table to compare diseases caused by the types of pathogens.

12. Type of pathogen
How the type of pathogen causes disease.
Examples of pathogen
Disease caused by pathogen
Bacteria
Viruses
Fungi
Protoctista

13. Plenary:
Without showing anyone write a question about microbes on the card and the answer to the question on the back.
Circulate the room asking your question to other members of the class. If they get the question correct swap cards with them and repeat!