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Article
Curated OER

Kids Health: Sun Safety

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn why the Sun keeps us healthy, and also, learn how the Sun can harm our skin, eyes, and immune system. Read about the dangers associated with the Sun's ultraviolet rays, and read tips to help you stay safe when outside in the summer...
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Hot or Not

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity explains what a fever is and how the immune system uses it to try and protect the body against germs. The students then explore temperature further by creating a model of a thermometer and completing a temperature...
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Invasion of the Body Snatchers

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this WebQuest, sudents will be working in cooperative learning groups to research bacteria, viruses, and the immune system via the Internet. Students will be taking notes and answering questions to show the teacher for approval....
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Article
Open Curriculum

Open Curriculum: Immune Response

For Students 9th - 10th
This article will help students learn how to describe the lymphatic system and its functions in the immune response, explain the role of antigens, describe a humoral immune response, identify roles of different types of T cells, define...
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Biology: Lymphatic System

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Covers the role of the lymphatic system in the immune response.
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Handout
University of Arizona

The Biology Project: Immunology: Introduction to Immunology

For Students 9th - 10th
This problem set introduces students to basic concepts about the immune system. Correct answers are reinforced with a brief explanation, and incorrect answers are linked to tutorials to help solve the problem.
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eBook
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: 11.22 Lymphatic System

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the structure and function of the lymphatic system.
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Interactive
The College of Physicians

The History of Vaccines: How Vaccines Work

For Students 9th - 10th
Animations showing how the different parts of the immune system respond to vaccination and how that response protects the body from a specific disease in the future. After viewing the animations, students do an activity to test their...
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Autoimmune Diseases

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Joint pain. Not an uncommon problem as you grow older. Is it due to normal wear and tear on the joints? Possibly. But rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disease,...
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Activity
Curated OER

Kids Health: How the Body Works Movies and Activities

For Students 3rd - 8th
Short, colorful movies explain each of the body's systems: skeletal, cardiovascular, digestive, urinary, respiratory, endocrine, skin, immune, muscular, and nervous. Once you've seen the movie, click on the Activity Page link for...
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Graphic
National Health Museum

Access Excellence: Memory Cells and Immunity

For Students 9th - 10th
A simple explanation and a light hearted graphic that discusses the role of the memory cells in immunity.
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Interactive
PBS

Pbs Teachers: Making Vaccines

For Students 9th - 10th
Examine how vaccines generate immune responses against pathogens in the body by creating six vaccines in this virtual laboratory.
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Handout
Other

Clermont College: Immune System

For Students 9th - 10th
A comprehensive site that includes the mention of the different roles the different lymphocytes make.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Human Body Systems Vote

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart identifies major body systems and their functions and illustrates body systems that provide support and movement, transport, air/gas exchange, excretion, immunity, reproduction and...
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Article
Other

The Health Success: Nutrition for Your Cells

For Students 9th - 10th
Basically, the stronger your immune system the healthier you are and, as a consequence, the more protected you are from environmental factors that lead to infection and sickness. If you eat foods that are rich in the nutrients your body...
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Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Disease Process

For Students 9th - 10th
In this comprehensive interactive tutorial you will study how your body is designed to fight off disease causing agents and what happens inside your body when you are actually sick. Additionally, you will learn how to organize...
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Article
Smithsonian Institution

Tween Tribune: If We Don't Need an Appendix, Why Is It There?

For Students 5th - 8th
Article presents a theory regarding the role of the appendix in the human body.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: B and T Cell Response

For Students 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Some defenses, like your skin and mucous membranes, are not designed to ward off a specific pathogen. They are just general defenders against disease. Your body also...
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Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: How War Weakens National Immune Systems

For Students 9th - 10th
Doctors Without Borders show how outbreaks of infections can devastate already war-torn communities.
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Handout
Cells Alive

Cells Alive!: Ouch, the Anatomy of a Splinter

For Students 9th - 10th
See how immune cells become involved when we get a splinter or a scratch.
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Website
Untamed Science

Untamed Science: Biology: Human Biology: Lymphatic System

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out how the body rids itself of wastes and fights off infections with the help of the lymph nodes and white blood cells.
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Ebola: At a Glance

For Students 9th - 10th
The Ebola disease is a life-threatening illness caused by the Ebola virus. There is currently no vaccine or specific medication for Ebola. Further discussion includes How does the virus replication work?; What are the symptoms of Ebola...
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Handout
WebMD

Medicine Net: Infectious Mononucleosis

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from MedicineNet.com gives an in-depth description of mononucleosis, its causes, symptoms, diagnosis and treatment, as well as complications that can come up. Links are provided for easy access to the topics as well to...
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Interactive
Soft Schools

Soft Schools: Biology: Human Body Worksheets and Quizzes

For Students 3rd - 8th
Test your understanding of the human body and all of its complexities with these interactive worksheets, games and quizzes.