OpenStax
Open Stax: Anatomy & Physiology: Anatomy of the Lymphatic and Immune Systems
Students learn and apply understanding of the structure and function of the components of the human lymphatic and immune systems.
Soft Schools
Soft Schools: Immune System Quiz
Take this interactive, multiple-choice quiz over the human immune system, then review your score and any missed questions at the end.
McGraw Hill
Mc Graw Hill: The Immune System Post Test
These eight questions can serve as an assessment of the general concepts of the human immune system. The questions can be self-checked after the quiz is completed.
McGraw Hill
Glencoe Biology: The Immune System: Self Check Quiz
Take this quick self-checking, multiple-choice question quiz over the human immune system.
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.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: The Human Body: Immune System
Self-playing slideshow, with an accompanying quiz, explains how the immune system works.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Biology: Immune System Part I Study Guide
This study guide on the immune system covers key terminology and the different lines of defense the human body has to protect itself against pathogens. It is available for download with free registration.
The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry
Abpi: Infectious Diseases: Immunity
An interactive, self-guided lesson on the function of the human immune system and how medical intervention prevents disease. This lesson has many descriptive animations as well as graphs and diagrams to help with understanding. There is...
Curated OER
Kids Health: Immune System
The different parts of the immune system and its cell types are explained. Also described are the three kinds of immunity humans have - adaptive, innate and passive - as well as the major types of disorders of the immune system.
Other
What a Mosquito's Immune System Can Tell Us About Fighting Malaria
Scientists are studying how mosquitos are able to fight off the parasites that humans seem to be unable to battle. Research is being done to help understand what slows or stops these parasites in the mosquito to protect them in an effort...
Biology 4 kids
Biology4 Kids: Quiz: Immune Systems
Take this ten-question review quiz over the immune system of the human body. Read more about each question after an incorrect answer is given.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Innate Immunity
The human body requires a multilayered immune system to keep it running smoothly. The two main classes of the immune system are the innate immune system and the adaptive immune system, or "acquired immunity". This article discusses the...
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...
The College of Physicians
The History of Vaccines: How Vaccines Work [Pdf]
The purpose of this lesson is to relate the action of vaccines to the human immune system. For this lesson, students will explore infectious disease and immunity and learn how vaccines help the body defend itself against infectious...
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.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: How Are Antibodies Used for Blood Typing?
The human immune system has various ways of responding to an infection caused by bacteria or viruses. Our bodies produce proteins (antibodies) that are highly specific for the infectious agent as a part of our "humoral" immune response....
Soft Schools
Soft Schools: Biology: Human Body Worksheets and Quizzes
Test your understanding of the human body and all of its complexities with these interactive worksheets, games and quizzes.
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.
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.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Engineering and the Human Body
The Engineering and the Human Body unit covers the broad spectrum of topics that make up our very amazing human body. Students are introduced to the space environment and learn the major differences between the environment on Earth and...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Human Immunodeficiency Virus (Hiv)
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Using images, examples, and videos, module describes how HIV causes AIDS and how it destoys the immune system.
Smithsonian Institution
Tween Tribune: If We Don't Need an Appendix, Why Is It There?
Article presents a theory regarding the role of the appendix in the human body.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Human Body Systems Vote
[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...
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.