Science 4th grade | UNIT 1: Humans and animals 1.5 Drugs as medicines
Drugs
Drugs are substances that make your body change in some way. Many drugs have good effects but some drugs can harm your body.
Medicines
When people are unwell they take medicine.
We take medicines to help make us feel better when we have an illness. Some medicines also prevent us from getting ill.
Not all drugs are medicines. Tobacco, for example, is not a medicine.
How we take medicines
We take different kinds of medicines in different ways.
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Activity 1.5 (How do people take medicines?)
Plan and carry out an investigation to find out the different ways that people you know take medicines, How will you collect the information you need?
How will you present your findings?
Questions
1) Why do we say that all medicines are drugs, but not all drugs are medicines?
2) Do you think we can use a cream as a medicine for a sore throat?
Say why or why not.
3) Why do you think people in hospital often get their medicine through a drip?
Challenge
Smoking is harmful. Find out how smoking damages the body.