Summary
Meet your body's defense team. Chloe and Nurb explain how the immune system spots germs that could make you sick and sends special cells to fight them off — and how recovering from an illness leaves your body better prepared for next time.
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Discussion questions
Discussion
Watch, then talk it over.
- What is the immune system's main job?
- What are germs, and how do they get into your body?
- How does your body fight off an invader once it finds one?
- Why might you not catch the same illness twice after you've had it?
Quick work-a-long
Words to know: immune system, germs, white blood cells, antibodies
Try it: Draw your immune system as a team of defenders. Label one "defender" and write what it does when a germ shows up.