Hey everyone. Welcome to an interactive lesson from Science Journal for Kids and Teens. This  lesson is about the immune system and the infectious disease we call measles. Scientific research reveals that measles survivors get sick more often with other infections than people who haven’t had measles before.

This is especially important as some people are choosing not to get themselves or their children vaccinated. And this is because of the spread of health misinformation. The MMR vaccine that protects against measles, mumps, and rubella undeservedly has a bad rep. And the result has been numerous outbreaks of measles across the world,  Unfortunately, a lot of the victims are children.

This interactive lesson is based on peer-reviewed academic research and follows the same structure as a scientific paper: with the introduction, methods, results, and discussion sections. First we’ll start you off with a short video with information in it. Then, you’ll find a list of key points. And on this page make sure you take time to explore the interactive videos, graphs, and diagrams. The last part of each section is a collection of checkpoint questions to make sure that you understood the information. These are really cool because you can actually check your answers and retry the questions.

After you’ve worked your way through all the sections of the lesson, make sure to take the final quiz to demonstrate your understanding of the research. But be careful here because you can’t check your answers or retry questions like you could before. When you’re done, you’ll see your score and you’ll see the questions you missed.

Finally, you’ll get to a summary screen. You might want to take a screenshot of this for your teachers to show that you actually completed the lesson.

We hope you learn a lot and have fun along the way! Thanks for interacting with us here at Science Journal for Kids and Teens!