In this activity, students define four key cancer terms. The aim is to produce accurate definitions identifiable by their peers.
By the end of this activity, students should be able to:
- define the terms ‘tumour', 'malignant', 'benign’ and ‘cancer’
- use the terms accurately within cancer-related discussions.
Download the Word file (see link below ) for:
- introduction/background notes
- what you need
- what to do
- student handout
- extension ideas.
This article, What is cancer? can give some good background information to this activity.
