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Human Body Series: Immune System Lesson PlanHuman Body Series: Immune System Lesson Plan
Publisher
Nemours KidsHealth
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Grade
3rd - 5th
Subjects
Science
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Resource Type
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Audience
For Teacher Use
Duration
2 days
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Technology
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Year
2006
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Human Body Series: Immune System

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When you work with school children, teaching about immunity and illness prevention is a priority! This approach includes a discussion, kid-friendly online articles, a creative writing assignment, and a quiz on the role of leukocytes and the immune system. Though the teacher's guide was published in 2006, the home website has been updated since that time. A video, quiz, and other activities have been added, but the titles on this document may not exactly match the titles on the website. You might want to bookmark the links prior to sending learners to the computer lab in order to maximize time.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

the immune system, infections, germs

Additional Tags

white blood cell, health

Pros

  • Uses creative writing to reinforce health and science concepts
  • Images effectively aimed at middle schoolers

Cons

  • Document has not been updated to reflect fresh titles on KidsHealth website

Common Core

RI.3.1 RI.3.2 RI.3.4 RI.4.1 RI.4.2 RI.4.4 RI.5.1 RI.5.2 RI.5.4

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