Teaching Resources

Teaching Tools Series:

• Integrating Caring and Human Dimension to Improve Student Learning of Immunology in a Diverse Classroom – Edith Porter, M.D. (March/April 2019)
• Promoting Critical Thinking through Writing in a First-Year Immunology Course – Doreen E. Szollosi, Ph.D. (June/July 2019)
• Don’t Lecture Me! Using Team-Based Learning in Professional Programs – Stephanie James, Ph.D., M.B.A. (October 2019)
• Tangible Content Maps: An Easy Way to Increase Student-Driven Learning in Your Immunology Course – Kara R. Lukin, Ph.D. (December 2019)
• Using Concept Maps to Encourage the Meaningful Interpretation of Immunology Facts and Processes – Nicholas A. Pullen, Ph.D. (July 2020)
• Using Pillars of Immunology Research Articles to Enhance Problem-Solving Skills Among Undergraduate Students – William Carr, D.V.M., Ph.D. (October 2020)
• Reimagining the PowerPoint Slide in Teaching Immunology – Gerald L. Buldak, Ph.D. (February 2021)
• Using Remote Access Technology for Pandemic and Post-Pandemic Teaching of Flow Cytometry Analysis – Timothy J. Wilson, Ph.D. (July 2021)
• Putting Movement into Immunology Active Learning – Sharon A. Stranford, Ph.D. (October 2021)
• Employing Self-Paced, Feedback-Infused Learning to Facilitate Mastery of Basic and Clinical Immunology – Natalie C. Steinel, Ph.D. and Michael Lee, Ph.D. (December 2021)
• Avoiding the “Can’t See the Forest for the Trees” Problem in Teaching Immunology – Pierette M. Appasamy, Ph.D. (March 2022)
• Using Learning Management Systems to Help Students Apply Immunologic Concepts – Michelle Swanson-Mungerson, Ph.D. (July 2022)
• Expanding the Reach of Immunology with the Help of an Interdisciplinary Approach to a Faculty Community of Practice – Louis B. Justement, Ph.D., Rebekah T. Taylor, Ph.D., and Sumali Pandey, Ph.D. (October 2022)
• Improving the Combined Use of Voiceover Slide Presentations and Review Games – John K. Cusick, Ph.D. (December 2022).
• The Creation and Use of Analogies as an Effective Tool for Teaching Immunology Concepts — Aimee Pugh-Bernard, Ph.D. (December 2023)
• A Perfect Fit: 3D-Printed Kit to Teach Students Principles of Antigen-Antibody Recognition and Herd Immunity — Sarah N. Ohashi, graduate student, Lindsey D. Hughes, Ph.D., Matthew Spencer, graduate student, Tomomi Yoshida, graduate student, Jennifer Wang, undergraduate student, Sasha Tabachnikova, graduate student, Andrew Woosnam, and Paula Kavathas, Ph.D. (March 2024)
• Cross-disciplinary and cross-institutional student collaboration for undergraduate immunologists — Jasty Singh, Ph.D. and Gabrielle Lam Ph.D., P.Eng. (October 2024)
• Using Team Based Learning to Teach Immunology Online, Stephanie James, Ph.D., MBA (January 2025)
• Instructors Develop a Simulation to Teach Neutrophil Chemotaxis (December 2025)
• Using Popular Media to Introduce Immunology to Students, John K. Cusick, PhD (January 2026)
• Draw It To Know It — Using DITKI as a Learning Supplement for Graduate & Medical Education, Elizabeth Delery, PhD (February 2026)

General:

• American Association of Immunologists Recommendations for an Undergraduate Course in Immunology
• Hemocytometer Online Simulation from the University of South Australia teaches students how to use a hemocytometer, count viable vs dead cells and discriminate blood cell types.
• Overview of the Immune System from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH, NIH
• National Science Teaching Association Case Studies
• Educational resources from Nobelprize.org include modules on the "Immune System," "Immune Responses," and a blood typing game.
• Your Amazing Immune System
• Virtual Immunology Lab, from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, demonstrates how an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) is carried out.
• The Inner Life of the Cell is an animation of molecular processes that takes students on a journey through the microscopic world of a white blood cell.
• Understanding Ebola Virus, from Biological Sciences Curriculum Study and Oregon Public Broadcasting, lets the user explore important factors that contribute to the spread of Ebola and discover how these factors can interact to produce an epidemic. Contains two interactive virus exercises.
• Educational resources from Science Prof Online include science-related teaching slides (PPT), images, and videos.
• Educational resources from Khan Academy include immunological short talks using a smartboard.
• Slideshare is a community for sharing presentations and includes immunology-related slides.
• RCSB PDB Curricula, from Rutgers University, feature high-school level immunology curricula (includes COVID-19 units).
• RSCB Boot Camp: COVID-19 Evolution and Structural Biology, includes four modules with exercises to understand how the protein evolved during the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Educational Resources – John Frelinger, Ph.D. – provide tips for giving an effective PowerPoint presentation and some interesting slides for talks
• AAI High School Teachers Summer Research Program in Immunology: Teaching Material Archive

Programs for K-12 Science Teachers:

• AAI High School Teachers Summer Research Program in Immunology
• Columbia University Summer Research Program for Science Teachers