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T-Cell Receptor Puzzle

45 minutes

Grade level: Lessons for 3-5

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Big idea

Students will model how T-cells attach to an infection by creating a puzzle.

In the Film

In Superhuman Body, we learn how Dr. Carl June developed new cancer therapy that uses T-cells, a type of white blood cell that fights infection. T-cells work by learning what certain infectious cells look like and attaching to them. In this lesson, students explore how white blood cells, and more specifically T-cells, help them stay healthy.

Objectives

  1. Students will identify strategies for staying healthy.
  2. Students will demonstrate the function of white blood cells by participating in a game.
  3. Students will model how T-cells attach to an infection by creating a puzzle.
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NGSS Standards

4-LS1-A
Construct an argument that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction.