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Worksheet
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The Immune System

For Students 9th - 12th
In this science worksheet, students find the words that describe the immune system and the answers are found by clicking the button at the bottom of the page.
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Lesson Plan
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Immune System Alive

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Learners examine the function of the immune system. They read and discuss text, complete a K-W-L chart, sequence photos of white blood cells encountering bacteria, develop an outline, and write an essay.
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Lesson Plan
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Antigens versus Antibodies "KO'd in Round Three" The Third Line of Defense of the Human Immune System

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders investigate antibodies, as the body's third line of defense against disease. They discover why antibodies do not defend the body against viruses and create a pantomime of the antibody/antigen/HIV relationship.
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Worksheet
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Disease And Treatment

For Students 8th - 10th
In this Disease and treatment worksheet, students solve 17 clues in a crossword puzzle about types of diseases, types of micro-organisms and immune system cells.
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Activity
Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Viral DNA Integration

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
How do viruses hijack our cells to produce more viral particles? Junior immunologists model how viral RNA integrates into a host cell's DNA using pop beads and use interactive tools to explore a virus' genome. The teacher's guide...
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The Battle of the Guts

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students listen to story, The Magic School Bus: Inside Ralphie, take notes from story on how body fights germs, identify different functions of immune system, and use Kid Pix slide show to explain how body fights viruses and bacteria.
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Lesson Plan
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Life Cycle - Human Biology

For Teachers 9th
In this life cycle worksheet, 9th graders complete 3 different procedures that distinguish viruses and bacteria and inherited characteristics. First, they read the background excerpt given about bacteria and viruses. Then, students cut...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

How Do Antiretroviral Drugs Work?

For Students 9th - 12th
In this biology worksheet, students watch a series of videos and complete 10 short answer questions right after. They explain how ART drugs interrupt the life cycle of HIV.
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Lesson Plan
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Viral Hijackers

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students discover how viruses effect living organisms. Focusing on HIV, they explain why it is unique and how it attacks the immune system. They simulate the spread of viruses through an experiment using water containing sodium...
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Tag, You're Sick

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students play a game to model how the immune system works. In this health and wellness lesson plan, the teacher explains how the immune system works, then students play a game of tag trying to stay away from germs, viruses, and bacteria...
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Lesson Plan
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Fighting Back!

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders inspect the basic functions of the immune system and determine how viruses and bacteria invade the immune system. They also explore what happens to the immune system in outer space.
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Lesson Plan
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TE Lesson: Fighting Back!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students examine the roles of the immune system in keeping the body healthy. They see how engineers contribute to this process by creating antibiotics, and vaccinations. They discuss how an astronauts' immune system may be suppressed...
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Lesson Plan
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Investigating the Method by Which the Body Defends Against Pathogens

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore disease caused by bacteria and viruses, how they are transmitted, and how they exert their effects on their hosts. They explain how diseases, such as AIDS, are spread by exponential growth.
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Lesson Plan
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Operation Anitbody

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students identify the types of cells that are important in the immune system. They investigate the different mechanisms used by white blood cells as they protect the body from foreign invaders. Students are given five case studies,...
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Lesson Plan
Cornell University

Who’s Got The Flu?

For Students 8th - 12th Standards
Become an immunologist for the day. Scholars elicit the use of the enzyme-linked immunoabsorbent assay (ELISA) to diagnose an infectious disease. Through the process, they learn about the immune system response to infectious diseases.
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The New York Times

Sequencing the Stages: Understanding H.I.V. Infection at the Molecular Level

For Teachers 7th - 12th Standards
How does HIV operate at the molecular level? Pupils discover the progression from a healthy immune cell to one infected with HIV, watch an animation of the HIV life cycle, and finally identify each of the stages with illustrations on...
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Lesson Plan
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Using Mathematics to Explain the Spread of Diseases

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students use statistics to solve problems based on the spread of disease.  In this disease lesson students study the role that viruses and bacteria play in the spread of diseases and explain pandemics. 
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Lesson Plan
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Viruses

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A fliud exchange activity using pipettes/droppers to exchange fluids with at least 3 people. your learners are advised not to spill any liquid. Droppers are collected in a large beaker, and students return to desks while holding tubes....
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Immune System Function

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students study the different facets of the Human immune system, including the functions of all the different organs in the immune system.
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PPT
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Animal Diseases

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Many of the toxins and parasites that cause illness are specified and discussed in this slideshow.  Poisoning and other mechanisms by which an animal can fall ill are detailed and the information about frequency, prevention and treatment...
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Nemours KidsHealth

Colds and Flu: Grades 9-12

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Flu fighters unite! To get the word out about the importance of getting vaccinated against the flu, groups create posters that persuade teens to get immunized. Also, scholars read articles about how to cope with colds, then create...
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Gregory Carter

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students explore how the immune system, fights a war with a pathogenic organism: one of the many bacteria, viruses, and protozoans that can infect our bodies and cause disease.
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Worksheet
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Preventing and Treating Disease

For Students 7th - 12th
In this disease worksheet, students will review the organs associated with the immune system including their specific functions. This worksheet has 10 matching, 8 true or false, and 5 short answer questions.
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Lesson Plan
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Just Say No To Risky Aids Behaviors

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students discover the behaviors associated with getting acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) and study the infectious cycle for the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) by playing a board game. They play in small groups.