Grade Level (s): 6th & 7th grades
Subject (s): Health, Science, & Language Arts
Learner Outcomes: Each student
should be able to:
1. explain the methods of HIV transmission.
2. differentiate between HIV-AIDS fact and myth.
3. use the internet in research.
4. use a word processor in preparing a journal.
Duration of Lesson: Two hours
Materials: Mini lecture
Truth or myth worksheet
Risk Behaviors sheet
Alphabetic AIDS
Fruit Basket Activity
Syringe Activity
Technology Tools/Courseware: Computer
hooked to internet, a slide maker program
(Presentation or Power Point), word processing software
Teacher Notes: The following
is a short introduction for the unit on HIV/AIDS:
HIV is found in the following body fluids: blood, semen, vaginal
secretions, &
breast milk. HIV is transmitted by:
1. sexual contact with someone who is infected
2. sharing needles and syringes with someone
who is infected
3. the passing of the virus from mother to child during pregnancy
or from breast
milk after delivery
4. a blood on blood contact
5. Some people contracted HIV through blood transfusions. Our
blood supply is
safer today than its ever been. The
Red Cross has been testing our blood
supply since April of 1985.
A few facts about HIV:
1. This virus is so small you can fit 200,000,000 on the head of
a pin period. This
virus can enter your body through the tiniest opening.
Examples: hang nails,
cat scratches, chapped hands, fever blisters, etc.
2. Both male and females can contract HIV through sexual contact.
Lots of
young people are under the assumption that only females
contract HIV this
way.
3. HIV clings to the inside of the needle and the syringe.
It is not flushed out by
the plunger. Therefore the virus is still in
the needle and syringe when the
next person uses it.
Syringe Activity could be done at this time. See Enrichment Activities
for
details.
4. Mothers can pass, through their blood, many diseases on to their
unborn
children, HIV-AIDS is one of those that can be passed.
5. If HIV contaminated blood makes contact on your body were there
is an
opening (no matter how small) it can enter your bloodstream
and infect you.
The eyes are an entrance to the body. Blood
splattering can enter the eyes
and infect the body.
Examples: 1. Standing around watching a fight - blood
being slung by the
fighters can get on you
2. Being bled on in any kind of accident
3. Needle pricks by nurses or doctors
4. Students sharing razor blades to cut shapes on their bodies
5. Sharing razors or toothbrushes
6. Letting someone pierce any part of your body without proper
sterilization
7. Tattooing or ear piercing from shops that don't clean their
utensils properly. Check to see that they have
an autoclave, a
sterilizer regulated by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration.
It
should also have an ultrasonic cleaner.
8. Getting snipped at a nail shop
9. Skin popping: The practice of using erasers to burn marks on to
the body
6. It is important that students realize that HIV is not an air-borne
virus. There
are very specific ways of getting it and we can protect
ourselves.
Examples: 1. No sex - if sexually active always use latex condoms
2. No drugs - even alcohol and marijuana cause us to lose control
and try things we wouldn't ordinarily do like having
sex or
sharing needles
3. Use caution when treating wounds
4. Don't stand around watching fights and don't get involved with
fighting
7. Our blood supply is as safe as it can be. We test donated
blood for hepatitis
and HIV.
To test it for HIV a blood test is run and the blood is heated. The
virus is
fragile. It cannot withstand heat.
8. HIV is hard to contract. You cannot get it by casual contact.
Examples of casual contact: 1. going to school with someone
who is infected
2. shaking hands, hugging, bumping up against
someone
3. touching stair railings, doorknobs, toilet seats,
telephones, using public transportation, cabs,
trains, planes, etc.
4. tears, sneezing, coughing
5. mosquito bites don't transmit HIV
6. pets don't transmit HIV
7. HIV can't leave in swimming pools treated with
chlorine
8. You can never get HIV by donating blood.
Procedures: 1. Have the
students continue writing in their journals using the word processor.
2. Using the search engines on the internet,
the students will research how HIV is
spread. The students will present to the teacher
five websites from which they
obtained their information.
3. Syringe activity- see Enrichment Activities
4. Fruit basket activity - see Enrichment Activities
5. The teacher can select any of the following activities:
Truth or Myth Worksheet
with key
Alphabetic AIDS
Modifications: If a computer
is available a slide show can be made instead of a lecture. If there
is
no computer, the chalkboard should be used.
Enrichment Activities: Select one or more of the activities from the materials list.
Fruit basket Activity: purchase
3 good apples and 1 rotting apple. Place
the apples in a basket with all the good apples touching
the rotting apple.
Point out to the students that over the period of
a few days the good
apples will begin to rot because of their closeness
to the rotting apple.
When this happens point out to the students that HIV
cannot be spread in
this manner. The virus has to enter the body.
Syringe Activity: materials needed: a syringe, vegetable oil,
food coloring.
Mix some red food colo>
Transfer interrupted!
oil, enoughcoloring so that the oil takes on a red color. In class fill the syringe and
empty it into a container of clean vegetable oil. Next fill the syringe with
clean oil and empty into a container of clean oil. The coloring will cling to
the inside of the needle and the syringe so that when you empty it into the
clean oil the red coloring will be transferred to the clean oil. The point is
that this is how hepatitis and HIV are spread among drug users who share
needles.
Evaluation/Assessment:
| Five Internet Websites | 50% |
| Truth or Myth Worksheet | 25% |
| Alphabetic AIDS | 25% |
WV Instructional
Goals and Objectives: Health:
Skill Development 6.1, 6.2
Personal Health & Wellness 6.8, 6.9, 7.10
Relationships 6.13, 6.14, 6.17, 6.18, 7.14
Science:
Nature of Science 7.9
Scientific Themes and Subject Matter:
7.27, 7.29
Language Arts:
Writing 6.53, 6.54, 7.52,7.55, 7.56, 7.64
Language 6.88, 6.89
Computer Technology 6.154, 6.155, 6.161,
7.164, 7.165, 7.167
References: Surgeon
General
Centers for Disease
Control
Weekly Reader
Ryan White Webpage
Created By: Nancy
Russell
Deborah Oxley
Karen Miller
Princeton Middle School
Date Created: May 14, 1999
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