Medicine Box Challenge and its associated tasks are designed to encourage collaborative working; offer experience of multi-tasking and working to deadlines; and to help students learn about medicines, their effects and how they are administered.
The whole activity requires a minimum of two hours, but should ideally take place over the course of 4 hour-long lessons.
Before the activity, you may wish to encourage students to use the information pages accessed in the menu to the left to research drug absorption in the body. This will prepare students well for the first part of the task.
In addition to the main task, we have provided one further task on excipients which can be used as a follow up exercise. We have also provided the questions and answer sheets from the main task as standalone tasks, which can be used as shorter activities where required.
The whole activity requires a minimum of two hours, but should ideally take place over the course of 4 hour-long lessons.
Before the activity, you may wish to encourage students to use the information pages accessed in the menu to the left to research drug absorption in the body. This will prepare students well for the first part of the task.
In addition to the main task, we have provided one further task on excipients which can be used as a follow up exercise. We have also provided the questions and answer sheets from the main task as standalone tasks, which can be used as shorter activities where required.
This is the core task for the module and can be split across 2 - 4 lessons. The ultimate aim is for students to carry out a full 'production run' for the packaging of a new medicine.
This online research task is designed as a follow-up to the central Medicine Box Challenge and concerns inactive ingredients or 'excipients' that are found in medicines.