Literacy in immunology
Literacy is an important part of the curriculum. Students need to have good reading and writing skills to be able to adequately address other areas of the curriculum such as science. In this activity, students use the medium of literacy to further explore and consolidate ideas about the immune system and immune response.
Some mind maps, poems and stories from year 5–6 students are included as examples.
Student mind map
Use this example of a student's mind map to encourage your students to draw their own mind map depicting the immune system. Ask them to show the various cells with ideas about them including their function and relatedness to others.
By the end of this activity, students should be able to:
draw a mind map showing the interrelatedness and function of some of the immune cells
write a poem about immune cells and their function
write a fictional story using scientific knowledge of the immune system and immune response
Download the Word file (see below) for:
introduction/background notes
what you need
what to do.
Related content
These articles help provide a basic knowledge and understanding of some ideas and concepts of our immune system:
Related activities
Additional activities to support learning about the immune sustem.
Check out the unit plans: Fighting infection – the immune system and Fighting infection – reducing infection.
