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The body’s second line of defence

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If the pathogens are able to get past the first line of defence, for example, through a cut in ...
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Immunisation in New Zealand

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The boy in the bubble

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Bacteria BLIS

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Global report on antimicrobial resistance

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Introduction to cells

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In this activity, students are introduced to cells. They learn that we are made up of cells ...
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Inside a cell

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In this activity, students learn about the contents of a cell. They explore some of the main ...
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Introduction to DNA

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In this activity, students extract and observe DNA from a tomato. By the end of this activity ...
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The wars within

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In this activity, students are introduced to the immune system. By the end of this activity ...
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Fighting infection card game

https://www.sciencelearn.org.nz/resources/190-fighting-infection-card-game
In this activity, students play a card game to explore how two types of immune cells help to ...
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Drama with microbes

https://www.sciencelearn.org.nz/resources/191-drama-with-microbes
In this activity, students use drama to model science ideas about immune response to pathogenic ...
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Spreading diseases

https://www.sciencelearn.org.nz/resources/192-spreading-diseases
In this activity, students model how a virus spreads through a group. By the end of this ...
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Literacy in immunology

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By the end of this activity, students should be able to: draw a mind map showing the ...
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How one primary teacher used our microorganisms ...

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Adapting SLH activities: providing another context

https://www.sciencelearn.org.nz/resources/2164-adapting-slh-activities-providing-another-context
Transfer, in the context of learning, is “the ability to extend what one has learned in one ...
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Adapting activities for younger students

https://www.sciencelearn.org.nz/resources/939-adapting-activities-for-younger-students
To customise curriculum materials for younger students, teachers need to consider the ...
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Supplementing SLH activities with other artefacts

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Artefacts as physical resources can provide both scenarios and resources for interaction (Roth ...
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SLH and the Physical World

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Many resources on the Science Learning Hub explore ideas relating to the Physical World strand ...
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Adapting SLH activities: incorporating prediction ...

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Milk matters: towards sustainable dairying

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