Now that our fifth grade classes understand how the immune system works, the students worked together to determine what illness was being spread around Mylo, Angelina, and Suzi’s classroom.  They used the patient information sheet to analyze the symptoms each child had and then reached a conclusion on the illness.  All of the classes agreed that it was either the flu or strep throat.  We were able to make some excellent real world connections to the job a doctor has in diagnosing patients.