Drug discovery teaching resources
Worksheets and lesson ideas to challenge students to think about drug discovery (GCSE and Key Stage 3)
Watch the video below about the accident that changed the world – the discovery of penicillin.
Discovery of penicillin – did Fleming just get lucky?
GCSE worksheet on the discovery of penicillin. Students work through the activity about the discovery of penicillin. This tasks gets students to apply what they have learnt about bacteria and antibiotics and gets them thinking about the details of Fleming’s observations and his contribution to drug discovery. (PDF)
Follow this link to the original paper published by Fleming in 1929.