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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Immune Cells in Action

For Students 9th - 10th
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]
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Fighting Infection With Adaptive Immunity

For Students 9th - 10th
Read a passage about our immune system and answer the follow-up questions.
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Handout
Science4Fun

Science4 Fun: Immune System

For Students K - 1st
Learn how the immune system works, the types of immunity cells, and the importance of vaccination.
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Handout
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Immune System Disorders and Hiv/aids

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson will examine several immune system disorders.
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OpenStax

Open Stax: Anatomy and Physiology:diseases Depressed/overactive Immune Response

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: Lymphatic System

For Students 6th - 8th
[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...
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OpenStax

Open Stax: Anatomy & Physiology: Barrier Defenses and Innate Immune Response

For Students 9th - 10th
Students use this module to learn about the barrier defenses and the immune defense functions of the human body.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Biology for Kids: Immune System

For Students 1st - 9th
Study how the immune system helps to protect us against diseases and pathogens such as viruses, bacteria, and parasites.
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Cells Alive

Cells Alive!: The Immune System Quiz

For Students 9th - 10th
Check out this ten multiple choice question quiz on the immune system.
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Other

National Jewish Medical and Research Center: Respiratory, Allergic, and Immune

For Students 9th - 10th
Top ranked hospital devoted entirely to respiratory, allergic and immune system diseases. Offers links to assist in research.
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Curated OER

Kids Health: Immune Cells Quiz

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Take a short quiz to assess knowledge of immune system and how immune cells work.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Biology: Immunity

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Discusses immunity and the differences between active and passive immunity.
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Article
Open Curriculum

Open Curriculum: Immune System: Nonspecific Defenses

For Students 9th - 10th
Students will be able to describe mechanical, chemical, and biological barriers that keep most pathogens out of the human body.
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Other

University of New Mexico: Immune Memory

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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BioMan Biology

Bio Man Biology: Conflict: Immunity

For Students 9th - 10th
Tutorial and game on vocabulary and functions of the immune system. Covers different cell types, immune responses, germs and pathogens, and antibiotics.
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Article
Open Curriculum

Open Curriculum: Immune System Diseases

For Students 9th - 10th
This article helps students explain how allergies occur and provides a list of common allergens.
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North Central Regional Educational Laboratory

Ncrel: Human Body Systems Resource

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Other

Get Body Smart: Human Anatomy and Physiology: Human Body Systems

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Humoral Immune Response

For Students 9th - 10th
[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.
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Interactive
PBS

Pbs Teachers: Surviving Aids: Fighting Back (Hot Science)

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Article
Center For Civic Education

Center for Civic Education: Relationship of State and National Legal Systems

For Students 9th - 10th
This lengthy essay describes the balance between state and federal judiciary courts and touches on independence, integration, power limits and immunities.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: The Lymphatic System

For Students 9th - 10th
[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...
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Adaptive Immunity

For Students 9th - 10th
This Khan Academy resource is an article about adaptive immunity.
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PBS

Pbs: The Immune System's Battle Against Disease

For Students 9th - 10th
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.