PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Immune Cells in Action
In this video segment from The Secret of Life, watch as a virus attacks a cell, and learn how the immune system reacts to this onslaught. Includes background reading material and discussion questions. [1:40]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Fighting Infection With Adaptive Immunity
Read a passage about our immune system and answer the follow-up questions.
Science4Fun
Science4 Fun: Immune System
Learn how the immune system works, the types of immunity cells, and the importance of vaccination.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Immune System Disorders and Hiv/aids
This lesson will examine several immune system disorders.
OpenStax
Open Stax: Anatomy and Physiology:diseases Depressed/overactive Immune Response
This section is about how the immune system goes wrong. When it goes haywire, and becomes too weak or too strong, it leads to a state of disease. The factors that maintain immunological homeostasis are complex and incompletely understood.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: Lymphatic System
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] If pathogens get through the body's first two lines of defense, a third line of defense takes over. This third line of defense involves the immune system. The immune...
OpenStax
Open Stax: Anatomy & Physiology: Barrier Defenses and Innate Immune Response
Students use this module to learn about the barrier defenses and the immune defense functions of the human body.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Biology for Kids: Immune System
Study how the immune system helps to protect us against diseases and pathogens such as viruses, bacteria, and parasites.
Cells Alive
Cells Alive!: The Immune System Quiz
Check out this ten multiple choice question quiz on the immune system.
Other
National Jewish Medical and Research Center: Respiratory, Allergic, and Immune
Top ranked hospital devoted entirely to respiratory, allergic and immune system diseases. Offers links to assist in research.
Curated OER
Kids Health: Immune Cells Quiz
Take a short quiz to assess knowledge of immune system and how immune cells work.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Biology: Immunity
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Discusses immunity and the differences between active and passive immunity.
Open Curriculum
Open Curriculum: Immune System: Nonspecific Defenses
Students will be able to describe mechanical, chemical, and biological barriers that keep most pathogens out of the human body.
Other
University of New Mexico: Immune Memory
A good review of how the immune system remembers certain pathogens in order to fight off illness. Includes discussion on the role of the memory cells.
BioMan Biology
Bio Man Biology: Conflict: Immunity
Tutorial and game on vocabulary and functions of the immune system. Covers different cell types, immune responses, germs and pathogens, and antibiotics.
Open Curriculum
Open Curriculum: Immune System Diseases
This article helps students explain how allergies occur and provides a list of common allergens.
North Central Regional Educational Laboratory
Ncrel: Human Body Systems Resource
What do you know about the different human body systems? This site features information on each of the different systems. Students and teachers will benefit from this comprehensive resource.
Other
Get Body Smart: Human Anatomy and Physiology: Human Body Systems
This source offers a great overview of the various systems of the human body. Each part is identified and described on this site by a veteran science professor. Many interactive quizzes are located here as well for students looking to...
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.
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.
Center For Civic Education
Center for Civic Education: Relationship of State and National Legal Systems
This lengthy essay describes the balance between state and federal judiciary courts and touches on independence, integration, power limits and immunities.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: The Lymphatic System
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Almost all of us have had a sore throat at some time. Maybe you had your tonsils out when you were younger? Why? Your tonsils are two lumps of tissue that work as...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Adaptive Immunity
This Khan Academy resource is an article about adaptive immunity.
PBS
Pbs: The Immune System's Battle Against Disease
A "just for fun" Shockwave game that allows you to control an animated macrophage against an invading virus. You must figure out how the let the Helper T-cells get involved.