2. How White Blood Cells Defend the Body
• Describe what a pathogen, receptor, white blood cell, antibody and
vaccine are.
• Understand 4 ways that White Blood Cells deal with pathogens.
• Apply the understanding of a white blood cell to explain why
vaccinations are useful and how a white blood cell is built to do its’
function.
3. Task
• Draw a comic strip of how the immune system works.
• Use the key phrases:
• Antibodies (things the WBc makes)
• Bacteria ( has the antigen)
• Receptor is the antigen
• White blood cell (makes antibodies, researches the antigen)
• Plasma cell (engulfs the bacteria-antibody and turns them into protein)
