Curated OER
Activities of the Immune System (Activity 1)
Young scholars cut an apple in half and cover half with plastic wrap. They place drops of liquid on each half and discover how our skin protects us. They answer discussion questions to end the lesson.
Curated OER
The Hijacker - How a Virus Spreads
Students view a video that presents how viruses attack the body and how the body's immune system responds. They simulate the spread of an infectious disease and establish the identity of the original carrier.
Curated OER
Immune System Alive
Students 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.
Curated OER
Gregory Carter
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.
Curated OER
Immune System Function
Students study the different facets of the Human immune system, including the functions of all the different organs in the immune system.
Curated OER
"Asthma: Stopping Attacks Before They Start"
Students study facts about living with asthma. They examine medical treatments and lifestyle changes that can improve the life of asthmatics. They determine the cause and effect relationship.
Aetna Intelihealth
Aetna: Inteli Health: Types of Allergies
Insightful article that categorizes and describes the various types of allergies. Also gives information on treatment of symptoms.
Aetna Intelihealth
Aetna: Inteli Health: Hay Fever (Allergic Rhinitis)
Informational overview of hay fever. Includes information on diagnosis, treatment, prevention, and much more.
Biotechnology Institute
Biotechnology Institute: Your World: The New Diagnostics [Pdf]
Discover new knowledge about molecular biology- how molecules fit together as a lock and key. This has given researchers new diagnostic tools that use immune cells from mice to produce antibodies to detect a specific virus or bacterium.
University of Arizona
The Biology Project: Immunology: Antibody Structure
A short tutorial illustrating the structure of the antibody, describing how the structure fosters its function.
University of Arizona
The Biology Project: Introduction to Immunology
If you want to check your understanding of immunology, this is the place to go. This resource has 13 different questions to test your knowledge, as well as tutorials that go with each question.
Rice University
Rice University: Web Adventures: Med Myst: Orientation at o.r.b
In this online learning adventure game, students get an introduction to infectious diseases, pathogens and the immune system. They will conduct field and laboratory investigations to solve the problem they are given, while playing the...
Rice University
Rice University: Web Adventures: Medmyst: Malady in Mabuufo
This is the fourth in a series of five missions that deal with how infectious diseases are spread. In this interactive adventure game, students are part of a team of investigators conducting field and laboratory investigations to learn...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Does Stress Cause Pimples?
Video discusses how stress can affect the body and why stress management is important. [3:55] Followed by a short quiz and a list of additional resources to explore.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: How Are Antibodies Used for Blood Typing?
The human immune system has various ways of responding to an infection caused by bacteria or viruses. Our bodies produce proteins (antibodies) that are highly specific for the infectious agent as a part of our "humoral" immune response....
University of Wisconsin
The Why Files: Attacking Aids
The Why Files have provided a wonderful site examining the possible AIDS vaccines being developed. Several topics are discussed, including topics about the chemical makeup of the virus itself.
The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry
Abpi: Infectious Diseases: Immunity
An interactive, self-guided lesson on the function of the human immune system and how medical intervention prevents disease. This lesson has many descriptive animations as well as graphs and diagrams to help with understanding. There is...
BioEd Online
Bio Ed Online: The Science of Microbes: Defending Against Microbes
Students learn about the immune system and complete a crossword puzzle to practice vocabulary. The lesson and a set of PowerPoint slides can be downloaded. Includes an instructional video on immune system vocabulary terms [7:13]
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Surviving Aids: Fighting Back (Hot Science)
Explore the body's immune system to understand how a virus enters the body and how the human body fights against the viruses like the mumps virus and HIV.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Making Vaccines
Examine how vaccines generate immune responses against pathogens in the body by creating six vaccines in this virtual laboratory.
Other
Quality of Work Life: Beyond Common Sense
Professional network of massage therapists from around the globe. Site contains articles on the most recent massage therapy research.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Hhmi: Biointeractive: Virtual Immunology Lab
This virtual laboratory demonstrates how an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) is carried out and some of the key experimental problems that may be encountered. Students will learn about the assay procedure and the equipment and...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Humoral Immune Response
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In the following tutorial students will describe the steps that occur in a humoral immune response.
Smithsonian Institution
Tween Tribune: If We Don't Need an Appendix, Why Is It There?
Article presents a theory regarding the role of the appendix in the human body.