eb+immune+SAC

One of the criteria for the immune response SAC requires you to show your progress in developing your presentation. On this page you should have the following. You should show your planning of the presentation, such as the images chosen and information you want to convey. This includes how you broke up your topic into the various sections. You should also include why you sequenced the images the way you did and the collating of information. It is important that you acknowledge any sources of information (including images) below. You will also need to upload your audio file onto this page.

I have chosen to do my SAC on vaccination because it is one of the new part of the course that we have learnt and i feel that this can only benefit in my learning.

For the criteria that must be met 
 * Comparison of non-specific and specific defences: I am planning on talking (and showing through a few pictures) where vaccinations comes in with our non-specific and specific defences. Pretty much this is how i see it, our non specific defences (internal and external) have failed us, so we need something to stimulate our specific defence, but without causing too much harm to ourselves. In comes.... vaccinations. The purpose of a vaccination is to inject someone with a weak form of pathogen, but will still stimulate our B cells with release anitbodies thus if we are ever invaded by the same pathogen, we have memory B cells and anitbodies ready to attack!!!
 * Concept of self and non-self: With this point I would discuss anitgens, specifically foreign antigens that enter our system and try to harm us. From there I would explain what vaccines have to do with antigens, and how the whole process actually happens.
 * Link between your topic anf that of the immune response: Well this is pretty obvious because the whole purpose of a vaccination is to elicit an immune response.
 * Application to medicine: I will talk about tetanus vaccionation, maybe talk a bit about the history and purpose, how it had helped millions of people. But now i have changed my mind, and I will talkabout vaccines to do with diseases like mumps and foot and mouth disease.
 * In my first paragraph i define vaccination and the form/type of pathogen (dead) that we are infected with. I also talk about B cells, their role in the immune system response when we are injected with a vaccination. I'll have two images showing while im talking, probably one of B cells, and one of an anitbody binding to an anigen (the one below). Furthermore, i talk about antibodies, and their roles in the immune response (which is pretty obvious, as they are the most important aspect). I talk in a little detail about B cells producing anitbodies and what happens later with the B cells.
 * In my second paragraph i talk about attenuated vaccines, what they are and what they do
 * Third paragraph talks about the advantages and disadvantages of vaccinations, what can happen to people that react badly to vaccines.
 * Fourth paragraph talks about inactivated vaccination and some examples. I was going to include pictures of the type of diseases that these vaccines are used for, but they are too disgusting to look at.
 * Further i talk about the first and second line of defence and its role in the immune system (including its role with a vaccination). I talk about the reason why we get a vaccination.
 * I include a little bit of information about DNA vaccinations which i found on the internet.
 * FInally at the end of my speech ( it was really hard to create), i sum up my whole point and the purpose of vaccinations and just how lovely it is.
 * I use the picture below ( the one with the purple background) twice in my video and this is because i feel that is just sums up the aspect of vaccinations very well. It shows that their is an immune resposne and the binding of antibodies to the foreign antigens.
 * My other image helped me talk about DNA vaccines. It shows the DNA encoding antigen being taken out and used for the production of a vaccination.
 * The image located at the bottom is just used to demonstrate antibodies binding to foreign antigens.
 * **The reources that I used were:**

[|www.immune.org.nz/?t=919] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VaccinationBiology Course Notes booklet 7 & 8 Year 12 Lecture Series (Biology mid-year exam- student lecture matrerial) [] []

In conclusion to the SAC i have to say that i have definitely know quite a bit about vaccinations. This task has saved me some time and now i can focus on the topics that I'm not ready for, i may even make a podcast for some of them................ [][]