Teaching Notes Understanding Immunity: a modeling Activity

Teaching Notes

Understanding Immunity: A Modeling Activity


Overview:
The lesson provides students with the opportunity to work through various processes of the immune system, keying in on the roles of specific cells and proteins, with an emphasis on connecting the structure of the proteins involved to their functions.


Learning Objectives:

1. 
   Understand key players and their functions in different types of immune response (innate, and adaptive, including humoral and cell-mediated)
   
2. 
   Relate the structures and functions of the different proteins and involved in immune pathways.
   

Estimated time: 50 minutes


Educational Standards

1. 
   Common Core
   
   1. 
      Key Ideas and Details
      
      1. 
         RST.11-12.1
         
      2. 
         RST.11-12.2
         
   2. 
      Craft and Structure
      
      1. 
         RI.11-12.4
         
   3. 
      Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
      
      1. 
         RI.11-12.7
         
      2. 
         RI.11-12.8
         
2. 
   Next Generation Science Standards
   
   1. 
      Practices
      
      1. 
         2. Developing and using models
         
      2. 
         6. Constructing explanations for science
         
   2. 
      Crosscutting Concepts
      
      1. 
         1. Patterns
         
      2. 
         2. Cause and effect
         
      3. 
         4. Systems and system models
         
      4. 
         6. Structure and function
         
   3. 
      Disciplinary Core Ideas
      
      1. 
         LS1: From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes
         
      2. 
         LS2.A: Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems
         
      3. 
         LS4: Biological Evolution: Unity and Diversity
         
3. 
   Advanced Placement Biology - Essential Knowledge (EK), Learning Objectives (LO), Science Practices (SP)
   
   1. 
      EK 2.D.3
      
      1. 
         LO 2.28, SP 1.4
         
   2. 
      EK 2.D.4
      
      1. 
         LO 2.29, SP 1.1, 1.2
         
      2. 
         LO 2.30, SP 1.1, 1.2