Curated OER
Blood: Transport and Protection
In this blood instructional activity, students review what makes up blood: plasma, platelets, and red and white blood cells. Students also learn how the blood helps fight viruses, bacteria, and other foreign substances. This...
Curated OER
Defense Against Infectious Diseases
In this infectious disease defense instructional activity, learners will review the immune system including acquired, antibody, and cellular immunity. Students will then compare passive and active immunity to infectious diseases. This...
Curated OER
The Immune System
In this science learning exercise, students find the words that describe the immune system and the answers are found by clicking the button at the bottom of the page.
Curated OER
Mechanisms to Fight Disease
Students explain how our body fight diseases. In this biology activity, students identify the role of bacteria and viruses in human illness. They create a PowerPoint presentation and essay at the of the unit.
Curated OER
Protecting the Herd
Students simulate the spread of a fictitious disease using an internet-based simulation. In this biology lesson, students predict the factors that could affect epidemic. They investigate these prediction using computer simulation.
Curated OER
STDs
In this biology worksheet, students identify and locate various vocabulary terms pertaining to types of STDs. There are 42 biology terms located in the word search.
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Biotechnology Institute
Biotechnology Institute: Your World: The New Diagnostics [Pdf]
Discover new knowledge about molecular biology- how molecules fit together as a lock and key. This has given researchers new diagnostic tools that use immune cells from mice to produce antibodies to detect a specific virus or bacterium.
Other
Treaty Establishing the European Community
This page provides access to the "Treaty establishing the European Community as Amended by Subsequent Treaties: ROME, 25 March 1957." Links are provided for each article.
Other
University of Cincinnati: Project Step: Antibiotics
STEM biology lesson where by designing their own antibiotics, students will gain an understanding of how the differences between prokaryotic cells and eukaryotic cells have played a role in their own health. They will also be able to...
DOGO Media
Dogo News: 'Smart' Bandage Extracts Bacteria From Wounds
Read about the development of a new bandage that actually helps to remove bateria from wounds.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Episd: Control of Viruses
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Find out the details of how scientists have found methods to control the spread of viruses.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Disease Process
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...
National Institutes of Health
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Get the latest government information on HIV-AIDS, allergies, the development of vaccines, and other health-related research topics.
OpenStax
Open Stax: Anatomy & Physiology: Adaptive Immune Response: T Lymphocytes
With these learning exercises, students explain the advantages of the human adaptive immune response over the innate immune response including the types of T cells, development, and their functions.
OpenStax
Open Stax: Anatomy & Physiology: The Immune Response Against Pathogens
Students learn about the development of immunological competence, and find out about the human body's immune response.
Nobel Media AB
The Nobel Prize: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1987: Susumu Tonegawa
This Nobel E-Museum site provides an autobiography and a very detailed description of Mr. Tonegawa's work for which he received the Nobel Prize in 1987.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: The Habitable Planet: Disease Lab
Manipulate characteristics of fictional diseases and see how the changes effect a population. Simulator includes a data table available for download for student records.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Hhmi: Bio Interactive: Cells of the Immune System
Slideshow with embedded video and audio explains our immune system and how it works. Includes a worksheet handout.
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.
Center For Civic Education
Center for Civic Education: Relationship of State and National Legal Systems
This lengthy essay describes the balance between state and federal judiciary courts and touches on independence, integration, power limits and immunities.
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.
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
Mc Graw Hill: The Immune System Pretest
Take this eight question multiple-choice pretest which assesses knowledge of the immune system. After the quiz, review the correct answers as a reinforcement of the concepts.
University of Arizona
The Biology Project: Immunology: Introduction to Immunology
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.