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Activity Sheet. Please use this sheet to record your data. Materials Needed: Pencil or pen, scissors, tape, computer or laptop with internet access.
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Materials Needed: Pencil or pen, scissors, tape, computer or laptop with internet access. Optional: crayons/markers/colored pencils.
Immune System Background
This next part is designed to allow you to pretend to be a body making antibodies!
In the human body, the bone marrow makes B cells with unique antibodies. These B cells float around the body until they recognize an antigen and trigger the immune system. They recognize an antigen if it has certain geometry or molecular characteristics. You can think antigen and antibody binding like putting on a glove. You want the right size and style to be
comfortable.
In this activity, we will pretend to be the body generating antibodies of unique shapes. Without describing the shape in detail, the Antigen player in this game will come up with a simple shape. The Antibody players have to come up with a corresponding shape. The Antigen will gradually give clues as to what shape they are, and the Antibodies will draw and predict a shape to match. After about 30 seconds of drawing, Antigens will ask our Antibodies
to show their work, and then Antibodies will rework drawings as necessary to get to the correct result. There will be up to 4, 30-second attempts per antigen. The shape can be simple like a triangle or pentagon, or complex like a crescent or letter. The winner is just who has the closest shape.
What was the shape? Triangle
How many lines/pencil strokes did it take to create the antibody? 2
What hints were most helpful? That it needed fewer sides.
Use the next two pages for your drawings. If you have more than two rounds, please use a separate sheet of paper.
Instructions:
For this exercise: a. Connect the antigens to the antibodies based on geometry by orienting them so that the edges line up.
b. Connect them based on chemical characteristics by lining up the same patterns.
c. Connect them based on charge by lining up the complementary charges. For example, a negative (-) antigen must connect to a positive (+) part of the antigen, and two antigens next to each other must have different charges.
Here are some interesting videos to check out about the immune system:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIJK3dwCWCw, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DFN4IBZ3rI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rd2cf5hValM
Green, Hank, director. Immune System, Part 1-3: Crash Course A&P #45-47. YouTube , Crashcourse, 8 Dec. 2015, www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIJK3dwCWCw.