Immune System Tutorial
1) Go to: http://www.accessexcellence.org/AE/mspot/sneeze/sahpmovie.swf
Answer in complete sentences:
a) Explain the allergic response using the terms mucous membranes,
allergen, and antibody, and histamine.
b) When Piper returns to class from the nurse’s office, click on his name.
How is the mucous layer different than your skin?
c) Click on the Doctor. Which is Piper’s allergen? What happens between the
antibody and the allergen when he is exposed to it?
d) Nurse: Which allergen is Piper exposed to? How does she know?
e) Student presentations: Which student(s) was/were correct? Why?
2) Go to: http://science.nhmccd.edu/biol/inflam.html
a) Who are the characters? Draw them.
b) Play “Antigen presentation/recognition…”. What cell organelles are in the
macrophage? Which one digests the bacteria?
c) Part of the digested bacteria is presented on the _________ ________ as
an __________.
d) What does the Helper T cell do?
e) Play “Cell-Mediated Immunity” After the virus is recognized, chemicals
are released. What do they do?
f) Give a general description of Antibody-Mediated Immunity
g) Write an analogy for any part of these animations.
3) Go to: http://www.accessexcellence.org/AE/mspot/
a) Choose one of these mysteries (and write it down):
Two Forks
Yellow Jackie
The Blackout Syndrome
b) Write a description of the disease in this story, including what it is, what the
symptoms are, and how people recover from it (is there a treatment that works?).