Starter quiz
- What does a doctor do?
- teaches you information
- makes you feel better when you are sick ✓
- keeps the community safe
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- How can we stay healthy?
- eat healthy food ✓
- go to bed really late
- exercise ✓
- never wash our hands
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- Who is the best person to ask if you want to know if something is safe?
- your friend
- a trusted adult ✓
- a brother or sister
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- Match the item to its correct use.
- food in the kitchen⇔something you can eat on your own ✓
- cleaning spray⇔only for cleaning, never for eating or touching ✓
- something you find in a cupboard⇔only use after asking a trusted adult ✓
Exit quiz
- Should you take someone else's medicine if it looks like yours? Yes or no?
- 'No' ✓
- If you have a headache and find medicine at home, what should you do?
- Take it on your own to see if it helps.
- Ask a trusted adult if it is safe to take. ✓
- Ask a friend if you should take it.
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- If you take the wrong medicine, you could get sick. True or false?
- 'True' ✓
- Match the action with the correct response.
- You see your friend sharing medicine.⇔Tell a trusted adult straight away. ✓
- You still feel sick after medicine.⇔Speak to your doctor. ✓
- You find medicine that looks like sweets⇔Give the medicine to a trusted adult. ✓
- Match the word to its definition.
- pharmacist⇔someone who is trained to give advice and give us medicine ✓
- doctor⇔someone who is trained to help us get better when we are ill ✓
- medicine⇔something that can make us better when we are ill ✓
- Who can give out medicine safely?
- friend
- pharmacist ✓
- brother
- doctor ✓
- sister
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Key learning points
- Only doctors and pharmacists can give out medicines safely.
- Medicine can be important for making people feel better.
- Taking the wrong medicine can be very dangerous.
- Taking too much medicine than prescribed can be very dangerous.
- Some medicines might look like sweets but are not; they can be dangerous.
Common misconception
All medicines are good for you.
Although medicines given by doctors or pharmacists can be very important, taking the wrong medicines, or too much medicine from what has been prescribed, can be very harmful.
Keywords
Doctor - someone who is trained to help us get better when we are ill
Pharmacist - someone who is trained to give advice and give us medicine
Medicine - something that can make us better when we are ill
Dangerous - when something is dangerous it can cause us harm
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