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Human beings are constantly interacting with other organisms that cause disease.
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Explain how viruses, bacteria, fungi and parasites may infect the human body and interfere with normal body functions.
Explain how viruses, bacteria, fungi and parasites may infect the human body and interfere with normal body functions.
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Recognize that the human immune system protects against microscopic organisms and foreign substances that enter from outside the body and against some cancer cells that arise from within.
Recognize that vaccines induce the body to build immunity to a disease without actually causing the disease itself.
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essential questions
vocabulary
virus Particle made of proteins nucleic acids, and sometimes lipids that can replicate only by infecting living cells. host organism that gives nutrition to a parasite parasite an organism that lives off of a host for nutrition antibiotic group of drugs used to block the growth and reproduction of bacterial pathogens. fungi group of organisms that feeds on other materials and is unable to produce it's own food microorganism small organism that can only be seen wih a microscope vaccine a biological preparation that improves immunity to a particular disease immunity is a biological term that describes a state of having sufficient biological defenses to avoid infection, disease, or other unwanted biological invasion. disease is an abnormal condition affecting the body of an organism immune system is a system of biological structures and processes within an organism that protects against disease by identifying and killing pathogens. cancer is the uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells in the body.
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multiple intelligencesThe best way a student can express his/her knowledge
Musical: Visual-Spatial: Intrapersonal (self): Naturalistic: Logical/Mathematical: Verbal/Linguistic: Interpersonal (others): Bodily-Kinesthetic: (more information on multiple intelligences here) |
learning stylesDifferent ways to approach learning for students
Auditory: Visual: Kinesthetic: special needsReading Disability:
Math Disability: Emotional/Behavioral: Cognitive Lags: Physical Impairments: |