Protection and Defense
Virginia SOL AP.6
Investigate how body systems work together to provide protection and defense from physical damage, pathogens, and other threats.
What students need to be able to do
- Identify the major components of the integumentary, skeletal, lymphatic, and immune systems related to protection and defense.
- Develop and use models to illustrate how the structure and function of body systems support protection and defense.
- Make, support, and evaluate a claim about how the structure of cells and tissues in body systems affect protection and defense.
- Make, support, and evaluate a claim about how protection and defense require body systems to work independently and together.
- Make, support, and evaluate a claim about the use and/or misuse of therapies in treating or preventing infections.
- Explain a disorder, disease, injury, lifestyle, or component of aging that affects the body’s ability to protect and defend itself.