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\nDisease and Vaccination\n

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\nFive lessons in Unit 2, Disease and Vaccination, examine the different ways the immune system protects the body from pathogens. In the first lesson, scholars develop an understanding of how the immune system and pathogens react to each...\n
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\nDengue Virus Life Cycle\n

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\nDengue Virus leads to the deaths of around 25,000 people, mostly children, every year. Scientists understand how the virus gets into cells and replicates, but they still struggle to prevent it. Curious scholars view an animation of the...\n
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\nHIV Life Cycle\n

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\nAlmost half of the global population infected with HIV cannot afford treatment. To better understand this devastating disease, young scientists observe the life cycle of HIV.  Through animation, they see the cell infection,...\n
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\nVirus Cell Life Cycle/Structure\n

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\nViruses were nano before it was cool to be nano. The presentation covers the structure of a virus cell and the life cycle of a virus. It also includes two videos illustrating the virus cell in greater detail.\n
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\nBattling Vector-Borne Diseases: Factors That Affect the Mosquito Life Cycle\n

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\nSlow the spread of disease by slowing disease carriers in their tracks. Learners explore just how they might accomplish this as they experiment with the life cycle of a mosquito under different conditions. Scholars design and conduct...\n
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\nWest Nile Virus-What is the Risk?\n

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\nBegin with an online pre-quiz about West Nile Virus. Using a fictional scenario, young epidemiologists read how it is transmitted and examine the stages of the life cycle of a mosquito. They imagine that they are members of the Centers...\n
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\nLife Cycle - Human Biology\n

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\nIn this life cycle worksheet, 9th graders complete 3 different procedures that distinguish viruses and bacteria and inherited characteristics. First, they read the background excerpt given about bacteria and viruses. Then, students cut...\n
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\nViral Lifecycle\n

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\nThis lesson has gone viral ... literally! An animation video describes how a single virus cell gives rise to a multitude of progeny viruses. Learners explore how a virus infects many cells in a short amount of time.\n
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\nMosquito Life Cycle\n

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\nSeventh graders investigate the life cycle of the mosquito. In this life cycle instructional activity, 7th graders gain knowledge about the diseases mosquitos carry. Students breed mosquitos and investigate their eggs. Students...\n
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\nDengue Virus Enters a Cell\n

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\nDoctors offer limited treatment options and no vaccine for Dengue Virus, which often requires intensive care. Scientists understand how the virus gets into cells and replicates, knowledge which they hope will lead to a cure or treatment....\n
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\nHow Do Antiretroviral Drugs Work?\n

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\nIn this biology worksheet, students watch a series of videos and complete 10 short answer questions right after. They explain how ART drugs interrupt the life cycle of HIV.\n
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\nAP: Chapter 18: Microbial Models\n

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\nAP biology and college microbiology classes benefit by completing this seven-page worksheet on microbes. An exhaustive set of questions addresses the characteristics and reproduction of viruses, classification and uses of bacteria, and...\n
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\nBiology - Virus Modeling\n

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\nStudents research one of the many types of viruses. They create a 3-D model of the virus they researched with graphics software.\n
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\nWest Nile Virus Strikes Again\n

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\nStudents examine the West Nile virus and how it is impacting an American Indian reservation,  In this virus lesson students devise a prevention plan for an Indian reservation to help limit the transfer of the West Nile virus.\n
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\nSequencing the Stages: Understanding H.I.V. Infection at the Molecular Level\n

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\nHow does HIV operate at the molecular level? Pupils discover the progression from a healthy immune cell to one infected with HIV, watch an animation of the HIV life cycle, and finally identify each of the stages with illustrations...\n
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\nViruses and Bacteria\n

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\nReviewing the key terms and ideas from a chapter about viruses and bacteria, this activity helps students to reinforce their knowledge about the makeup and life cycle of a virus. Students answer true/false questions, blanks from a word...\n
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\nViral Lysis and Budding\n

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\nHow do some viruses spread so quickly, and why do they make us feel terrible? Answer these (and many more) questions through a simple yet impactful lessons. Pupils observe demonstrations that show the two methods viruses use to escape...\n
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\n6 Sleeper-Agent Pathogens That Can Make You Sick\n

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\nYou may have heard that, if you've had chicken pox, the shingles virus is already inside you. The bad news? It may not be alone! Introduce your microbiology class to some of the trickiest pathogens we know of in the 151st video in an...\n
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\nViral DNA Integration\n

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\nHow do reverse transcriptase inhibitors work? Young virologists examine the function of azidothymidine, a drug doctors use to treat HIV patients, during a hands-on modeling activity. Groups create a strand of DNA from an HIV RNA strand...\n
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\nSeasonal Science: Asian Tiger Mosquito\n

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\nMost people find mosquitoes merely annoying, but can they also be deadly? The Seasonal Science series introduces the Asian Tiger Mosquito, one of the most troublesome mosquitoes in the world. The narrator details the viruses the pests...\n
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\nCase Studies: Influenza and HIV\n

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\nStop infection spread. Pupils participate in an activity to model infections and replications of viruses. Within the activity, scholars see that viruses may end up with genetic variation and connect that to how some forms of the flu are...\n
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\nViral DNA Integration\n

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\nHow do viruses hijack our cells to produce more viral particles? Junior immunologists model how viral RNA integrates into a host cell's DNA using pop beads and use interactive tools to explore a virus' genome. The teacher's guide...\n
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\nFungi - Review and Reinforce\n

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\nDiagrams of possible fungi life cycles are printed on the learning exercise for biology pupils to evaluate. Short-answer questions ask them to explain what a fungus is, how it obtains food, and what would happen if they ceased to exist....\n
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\nViruses\n

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\nIn this biology lesson, students complete a crossword puzzle with 35 questions about viruses. They identify the different types of viruses and the diseases they bring.\n
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