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Lesson Plan: Specific Immune Response: Cell Mediated Biology • Third Year of Secondary School
This lesson plan includes the objectives, prerequisites, and exclusions of the lesson teaching students how to describe how T lymphocytes coordinate a response to virally infected and abnormal body cells, outline the role of suppressor T cells in the immune response, and compare cell-mediated immunity with other types of immune response.
Objectives
Students will be able to
- explain how T lymphocytes are activated by binding to complexes on the surfaces of macrophages,
- describe how T lymphocytes coordinate an immune response against virally infected or abnormal body cells,
- outline the role of suppressor (regulator) T cells in inhibiting the immune response at the end of an infection,
- compare cell-mediated immunity with humoral immunity and the nonspecific immune response.
Prerequisites
Students should already be familiar with
- the existence of different types of T lymphocytes,
- the humoral immune response,
- the process of antigen processing and presentation (in the antibody response),
- the process of clonal expansion (in B cells).
Exclusions
Students will not cover
- details of how suppressor T (regulator cells) work.
