Immune System 3-D Model Making Kit

Make the immune system easy to understand!

Models are powerful tools for teaching science because they provide useful simplifications of structures and processes, helping to make the unseen seen and the complex simple.

This innovative model gives students an understanding of the cellular interactions of the immune system.

Students make models of helper T cells, cytotoxic T cells, B cells, plasma cells, antibodies, cytokines, memory cells and phagocytes. The learning activity then shows students how these immune cells interact to protect us from pathogens.

It covers key concepts including: innate immunity, adaptive immunity, immunological memory, clonal expansion, antigen specificity, antigen presentation and MHC.

The Model Making Kit includes enough materials for students to assemble up to 5 paper models working cooperatively. The comprehensive Teacher Resource Guide included provides illustrated readings, activities, key vocabulary and an assessment, along with teaching opportunities for students to Engage, Explore, Explain, Extend and Evaluate their understanding of the concepts presented.

Models are powerful tools for teaching science because they provide useful simplifications of structures and processes, helping to make the unseen seen and the complex simple.

Based upon the NGSS Standards, students are expected to develop and use models to represent structures, systems and processes, and then provide explanations, make predictions, or investigate possible solutions.

Using the ready-to-use materials provided with each 3-D model set, students first assemble a model to represent a structure or an entire system as an aid to develop questions and explanations. They will then generate data and observations that can be used to make predictions and communicate ideas to others.