TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: How Does the Immune System Work?
Inside you, a daily battle is being waged and your immune system is at the frontline. Emma Bryce explores the different components of this system and how, together, they do their vital work.
CPALMS
Florida State University Cpalms: Florida Students: The Immune System: Your Body's Private Defense System
This interactive will help students to identify the basic functions of the immune system. Recognize ways to distinguish between nonspecific and specific immune responses.
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.
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.
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.
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: The Lymphatic System
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Almost all of us have had a sore throat at some time. Maybe you had your tonsils out when you were younger? Why? Your tonsils are two lumps of tissue that work as...
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
Clermont College: Immune System
This complete resource provides a thorough discussion of the immune system. Topics include the non-specific defense mechanism, specific defense mechanism, humoral immune system, cell-mediated immune system, and more.
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...
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: Immune System Questions
Multiple choice practice questions over the immune system.
Cells Alive
Cells Alive!: The Immune System Quiz
Check out this ten multiple choice question quiz on the immune system.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Bam! Body and Mind: Immune Platoon
This site gives a comic book style description of the immune system and the "super powers" it uses to fight infections and other diseases. The site ends with the "case files" of several diseases in their disease database.
Biology 4 kids
Biology4 Kids: Immune System Protect the Homefront
What does the immune system do, how does it work with other systems, and what problems might occur with it? These facts are highlighted.
BioEd Online
Bio Ed Online: The Science of Microbes: Defending Against Microbes
Middle schoolers learn about the immune system and complete a crossword puzzle to practice vocabulary. The lesson and a set of PowerPoint slides can be downloaded. Includes an instructional video on immune system vocabulary terms [7:13]
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...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Immune Cells in Action
In this video segment from The Secret of Life, watch as a virus attacks a cell, and learn how the immune system reacts to this onslaught. Includes background reading material and discussion questions. [1:40]
PBS
Pbs: The Immune System's Battle Against Disease
A "just for fun" Shockwave game that allows you to control an animated macrophage against an invading virus. You must figure out how the let the Helper T-cells get involved.
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.
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.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: 11.60 Innate Immune System
Discover the function of the innate immune system.
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...