Human Body Systems Unit: Pathogens and the Immune System
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Keep your students engaged by having them interact with the different body system. This set includes the digestive, nervous, muscular, circulatory, respiratory and immune systems. All the "labs" are done with no equipment, so students can even do this from home. Some of these activities may be challPrice $18.00Original Price $22.50Save $4.50
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Title Slide
Slide #1: Definition of a pathogen
Slide #2: Table of all the major pathogens (bacteria, viruses, fungi and protozoa). Students are to use the link provided to fill out a basic description of each and the diseases caused by each.
Slide #3: Graphic organizer focusing on the similarities and differences between viruses and bacteria. It is also color coded. It is filled out for the students because they will be using this information in the next activity.
Slide #4: Drag and drop Venn Diagram. Students have a Venn diagram comparing viruses and bacteria. Students have to drag the correct description into the correct area. Students can use the previous slides to help them.
Slide #5-8: This takes students through the online cases study from the CDC, called solve the Outbreak. This only focuses on one of the case studies. As an extension, you could have students do more of them. They have tons!
Slide #9: Describes the overall function of the immune system and the organs with a diagram.
Slide #10: Identifies the 6 cells of the immune system that will be focused on, which include macrophages, neutrophils, helper t cells, killer t cells, b cells and memory cells.
Slide #11-12: Students will read the comic created by Arizona State University and determine the job of each of the immune system cells from the comic.
Slide #13: Immune System Analogy: Students read the story about a bank. Each part of the story represents one part of the immune system and students must use what they have learned to identify each part.
Slide #14: Immune System Choice menu. Students have 3 choices of how they can demonstrate their learning. They can choose to create a different analogy, comic (online resource link included) or stop motion video (resource link included) using the vocabulary used in the presentation. I am having my kids turn this in on the same assignment on google classroom. If you are using a different platform, please change this instructions in this section.
That's it! I think the kids will get a great understanding of pathogens and the immune system from these learning activities.
