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Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Organs and Tissues of the Immune System

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
It's virus-fighting time! Pupils learn how viruses attack and reproduce and how the immune system works to protect the body. They identify unfamiliar terms and tissues and organs of the immune system. Working in small groups, scholars...
Lesson Plan
Nemours KidsHealth

Human Body Series: Immune System

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
When you work with school children, teaching about immunity and illness prevention is a priority! This approach includes a discussion, kid-friendly online articles, a creative writing assignment, and a quiz on the role of leukocytes and...
Lesson Plan
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Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

The Adaptive Immune System

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Attack the pathogen from within. Learners delve deeper into the immune system and find out about the adaptive immune system such as T and B cells. Groups create graphical models of the adaptive immune system along with a multimedia...
Lesson Plan
2
2
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

The Innate Immune System

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
My body is my castle. Pupils learn about the innate immune system in the second lesson plan of a three-part unit on the immune system by comparing the innate immune system to a castle and moat. Groups conduct a simulation where they try...
PPT
Pearson

Immune System – Guarding Against Disease

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Health fact: Washing your hands is one of the most important ways to protect your body from germs. Share this advice and many other tips for guarding against diseases such as the cold and flu virus with a colorful 73-slide...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Launching a Defense; Understanding the Human Immune System

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students research online to answer and develop questions about immune system, create Powerpoint presentation to share information with classmates, and assimilate information into pictorial and/or graphical description of immune system.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Launching a Defense; Understanding the Human Immune System

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students research online to answer and develop questions about immune system, create Powerpoint presentation to share information with classmates, and assimilate information into pictorial and/or graphical description of immune system.
Handout
Ask A Biologist

Viral Attack

For Students 4th - 8th
Can you catch the same cold twice? Elementary and middle schoolers learn about what happens when a virus attacks their bodies, and how the immune system never forgets a virus, with an entertaining comic book. The packet includes...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

What Happens to Our Bodies When We Get Sick?

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders explore ways in which they become sick. They find out ways that there bodies fight off bacteria. Students watch a video from the Magic School Bus series:"Inside Raphie." After reviewing video students can openly discuss...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

HIV/AIDS, iChat, and the Immune System

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students study HIV and model the course of an infection.  In this immune system lesson students examine HIV and AIDS and learn that it is a preventable disease. 
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

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, the teacher explains how the immune system works, then students play a game of tag trying to stay away from germs, viruses, and bacteria and...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Food Allergies

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students examine food allergies as a children's health problem. In this food allergies lesson set, students participate in a discussion about common food allergies. They research how the immune system misfires in allergies, and...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

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.
Lesson Plan
Nemours KidsHealth

Food Allergies: Grades 3-5

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
In a creative writing and health assignment, your pupils will write a letter on behalf of an immune system to apologize for causing a food allergy, while also identifying what food allergies are and what types of foods can cause them.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Viruses/Infectious Diseases: What's Really Bugging You?

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Middle school life science or health classes listen to an audio, visit websites, read different articles, and participate in a class-wide simulation about the spread of viruses. The lesson doesn't get into the mechanics of how viruses...
Worksheet
Curated OER

The Immune System

For Students 10th - 11th
In this health worksheet, students locate 25 words related to the immune system. Words are hidden in a word search. Students may self correct by selecting the link at the end of the page.
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2
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Development of Disease and Infection

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
It's all in the cards. Using cards to simulate a disease's attack on the immune system, pupils develop an understanding of how the immune system and pathogens react to each other and why at times the pathogen wins. Groups play a game to...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Human Body

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders explore the basic body systems and design a commercial advertising one of them. They also create a body systems handbook.
Unit Plan
Next Generation Science Storylines

Why Don't Antibiotics Work Like They Used To?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Bacteria get more resistant to antibiotics every year. Learn the reason for this pattern and how scientists are addressing the problem in a six-week unit. Learners analyze different types of bacteria and their adaptations.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

"Writing As Healing" Exercise

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students begin with a teacher-leld discussion of recent research, which has found measurable imporovements in patient symptoms even four monthe after their participation in a brief writing exercise about a stressful event in the...
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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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Nemours KidsHealth

Cold and Flu: Grades 6-8

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Wouldn't it be lovely if people were immune from colds and flu? Alas, such is not the case; however, there are things we can do to avoid getting or spreading these pesky health hazards. Middle schoolers read articles that provide them...
Activity
Exploratorium

Skin Shield - Explore the Body’s First Line of Defense Against Pathogens

For Students 6th - 12th
Make pathogens and the body's defense systems come alive for young biologists in a hands-on activity. Investigators model the skin's protection against infection by observing and comparing changes in a punctured tomato and an intact...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Asthma and Allergies

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Your health class reads two biographical stories: one about a girl who has allergies and the other about a girl who has asthma. They watch a quick cartoon on the KidsHealth website about immunity and take the related online quiz. You...

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