Audience: 8-12

Games, Quizzes, Videos and More

These interactive resources will help young people improve research. You can select a Filter from the tabs above, or browse the list below (most recent shown first).

 

Esme, Nicke and Freya explore research at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children (GOSH). They talk to

– patients Lottie and Ashley about what it is like to take part in research,

– research nurses Amy and Kate about their job and

– GOSH’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Peter Steer about why research is important.

Myth Busters: Research in the hospital

Esme, Nicke and Freya explore research at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children (GOSH).

Learning about research ethics in the classroom

These scenarios have been developed and tested by Generation R YPAGs.

The Nuffield Council on Bioethics worked with Mosaic Films to produce this short animation which conveys some of the key themes of the Council’s report ‘Children and clinical research: ethical issues’ from the perspective of Mia – a character who goes through some of the questions and issues that might be raised when a young person is invited to take part in clinical research.

You can download the full report from the Nuffield Council website (scroll down the screen).

Health research: making the right decision for me

Short animation exploring clinical research from the perspective of children.

Do you want to see a 3D model of your heart?

Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in London is researching 3-dimensional models of congenital heart diseases.

This video is about how children, young people and families have improved the design, development and delivery of paediatric research.  It was funded by the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) Biomedical Centre Award to Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) and University College London.

This video concerns young people participating in clinical trials.  There are other ways of participating too, and you don’t have to be in a trial to help out with Generation R.

Find out more about what you can do.

Generation R: Young people improving research

How children, young people and families have improved the design, development and delivery of paediatric research.

This video is Part 4 of a series of videos produced by the YPAGs at the inaugural Generation R event held in 2013 by the National Institute for Health Research.

You can see further videos from this event on Testing Treatments interactive.

The NIHR YouTube channel is also worth a look, as it is regularly updated with videos about health research.

The importance of medical research

In this video from the inaugural Generation R meeting in 2013, YPAG members lead a discussion of why medical research is important.

Wordsearches

These PDF wordsearches contain words relating to health research.

Pictionary research activity

We play Pictionary using research concepts intead of the usual game cards, allocated to different levels of difficulty.

Jenga research activity

This is a group activity that tests young people#’s knowledge about health research, as well as their steadiness of hand!

It’s OK to Ask – dot to dot

This PDF contains a dot-to-dot exercise for younger students.