Activity

Fighting infection card game

In this activity, students play a card game to explore how two types of immune cells help to fight viral infections.

By the end of this activity, students should be able to:

  • explain that different viruses infect different cells to cause disease

  • explain the two main ways the immune system stops viruses from replicating

  • explain the relationship between influenza and the lung, and rotavirus and the gut.

Download the Word file (see link below) for:

  • introduction/background notes

  • what you need

  • what to do.

Published:11 November 2010