Lesson Plan:

Objectives:

1. Define pathogen.
2. Compare external and internal defenses.
3. Identify macrophages, T-cells, and B cells as white blood cells.
4. Describe their functions.
5. Summarize and illustrate the immune system response.
6. Explain how the body can build immunity (active and passive
immunity).

Allocated time: 55 minutes

Vocabulary:

Spleen- T-lymphocytes - B-Lymphocytes - Lymph nodes - Thymus -

Macrophages - First line of defense in the body- Vaccination –
serotherapy

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First:

Ask the students ahead of time to collaborate in order to prepare the

immune system lesson and post their information on a created padlet
(an online board) by the teacher. (The link will be sent to the students
by mail or using any platform)

I ask each group of two students to post about one idea related to the
immune system. All the students will participate. In case all the ideas
were taken the rest of the students have to read all the posted
information.

The exercise will be as following:

Choose one of the following and write about it briefly:

(Spleen- T-lymphocytes - B-Lymphocytes - Lymph nodes - Thymus -

Macrophages - First line of defense in the body- Vaccination -
serotherapy)

The students work can be graded online. Those they can’t post
anything, in case all the ideas were taken, have to explain the ideas
when the padlet is presented in class.

Here is the link to the created padlet:

Immune System

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Second:

After enjoying the padlet and discuss the lesson and make the
students explain it with guidance of the teacher, they have to solve
two exercises that will be corrected in peer teaching.
A- Match each letter from the first column to one answer of the second
column. (Write the number of the correct answer in the blanks) (10 pts)

a. Active ……………….. occurs when

your body makes its own antibodies.

b. ………………………. contain small

amounts of weakened pathogens that
help in an active immune response in
your body.

c. Dust particles that enter the nose are

trapped by hair-like structures called
……………….. .

d. Lymph nodes function as part of your

Immune system because they filter out
pathogens and store ………………. .

e. T-cells recognize a specific marker on

a pathogen, and then B-cells make
…………………… to destroy the pathogen.

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Third:
The following documents represent the 2 types of immune responses. (10 pts)

1- Describe the process taking place in document 1 in a short paragraph. (6pts.)

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2- What type of immune response is presented in:
a) document 1? ________________________________________ (1pt)
b) document 2? ________________________________________ (1pt)

3- Which one of these two responses keeps memory for a future infection?
Justify your answer. (2pts)
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