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.
Related content
This article, What is cancer? can give some good background information to this activity.
For explanations of some of the key concepts encountered when exploring medical imaging see See-through body – key terms.
