•What is a vaccination?
•How are vaccinations given?
•What is the job of white blood cells?
•What are antibodies?
•What does ‘immune’ and ‘immunisation’
mean?
Lesson Outcomes
White blood cells produce
antibodies when they
need to!
The antibodies need to
be the right shape to
match the pathogen.
The antibodies need to
be the right shape to
match the pathogen.
Your body only knows what
shape to make the
antibodies after you have
caught the disease and
become ill.
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b
d
c
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2
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Not being able to catch a
certain disease because you
have antibodies in your blood to
fight it.
Immune
A dead or weakened version
of a disease.
Vaccination
Use these words to explain how a
vaccine works.
inject dead/weakened
antibodies white blood cells
microbe vaccine
Vaccination
•What is a vaccination?
•How are vaccinations given?
•What is the job of white blood cells?
•What are antibodies?
•What does ‘immune’ and ‘immunisation’
mean?
Lesson Outcomes