Teaching Strategy: Immune System Defender Vocabulary

Before playing the game, teach your students the vocabulary connected to the Immune system, and use the game site to see cartoon images of these immune system heroes.

Important terms to know include:

1. The Complement System

2. Phagocytes

  • The granulocytes

  • The macrophages

  • The dendritic cells

3. Lymphocytes

  • T cells

  • B cells

Once students are knowledgeable about immune system vocabulary, guide them to relate the game to what is happening in their bodies.

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