Infection Wars

Students observe blood cells under a microscope and make drawings of their observations. They write and act out a short play starring blood cells, antibodies and bacteria to demonstrate fighting infection.

Students recognize disease vectors (pathways) and risk factors for infectious diseases.

Students investigate the illness borne in concentration camps. For this Holocaust lesson, students participate in a simulation that requires them to consider how ailments became epidemics in concentration camps.

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.