Look Around, What do you see?

The last few weeks the clases 4E and 4C have been observing some behaviors and actions from a group of persons mostly people around the age of 15. And what´s more we counted how many times anyone in that group completes one of those actions/behaviors. These are the results!!

As we can see these actions might facilitate the spreading of germs, for instance; sharing drinks. On the other hand they might stop the spreading of germ too,  an example could be sanitizing or washing our hands.

By sneezing, coughing without covering as well as sharing drinks or foods we can easily spread, through fluids, germs.  Mumps, flu and even Chickenpox are some of the diseases that can be spread by fluids like saliva. Nevertheless there are other fluids like, for example, breastmilk, that can also spread diseases.        

Velentina Arcangeli , Micaela Brasquet          

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What do we know about immunity and vaccines?

In the past lessons we have been working on the topics IMMUNITY and VACCINES.

We did some Visible Thinking Routine in teamwork:
I think -what do you know about the immune system?
Now I think- after seeing two videos what do you learned and know better?
I wonder- do you still have questions?












Let´s have some feedback about this unit! 

What did you learn and how? Did you enjoy it? Did you find it interesting? Where the videos clear? Do you consider yourself an expert immunologist?

So, last part: let`s assess you knowledge on a Google Forms!

Still need to understand some things? Don´t worry! Immune system is not an easy matter. It is complicated, we know, it needs more insight.

But how important it is to understand the importance of how our body defends itself against diseases! How important is vaccination, how important is prevention. How important is it to consider people that are vulnerable, because their immune system is affected (eg: AIDS, transplanted, elderly, babies...)

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