Curated OER
Antigen Switching in Malaria
Students model how the malaria-causing protist avoids immune response in its host. In this parasite biology lesson, students use printed cell images to model the way that Plasmodium changes surface protein markers every few generations...
Curated OER
Malaria
In this malaria activity, students answer 8 short answer questions regarding the disease malaria, what causes it and how it can be controlled.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Smarter Than Your Average Slime: Maze Solving by an Amoeboid
In this science fair project, grow the acellular slime mold Physarum polycephalum and test its ability to find the shortest path through a maze.
Other
Malaria Foundation International: What Is Malaria?
A physician answers frequently asked questions, a World Health Organization Fact Sheet is available and other resources are presented on this handy page.
Biology Pages
Kimball's Biology Pages: The Protists
A brief, but informative paragraph describing the parasitic nature of sporozoans, part of a larger page about single-celled organisms.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Malaria
Extensive information about malaria.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Biology: Protists and Human Disease
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Discusses how protists cause human disease.