Grade Level (s): 6th and 7th grades
Subject (s): Health & Language Arts
Learner Outcomes: Each
student should be able to:
1. realize that you cannot tell if a person is HIV positive or not
just by
looking at
them.
2. use a word processor in preparing a journal.
Duration of Lesson: Two hours
Materials: Mini
lecture
Empty, sealed soda cans*
Ripe fruit
A variety of products students will be familiar with
One nice apple
One nice orange
*You will have to see someone at your local
Red food coloring
bottling plant about getting these cans.
One syringe
Technology Tools/Courseware:
Computer hooked to internet, a slide maker program
(Presentation or
Power Point)
Teacher Notes:
- Both of these activities work very well.
- HIV/AIDS and STD Resources
I've had many students over the years who really believed that all people
infected
with HIV had
certain physical characteristics and they could spot them a mile away.
I
borrowed or developed
the following activities to dispel this theory.
Use these activities to prove that we can't always tell if someone is infected
with HIV.
After all, if they don't know they're infected how on earth could we know
it?
Activity 1:
Go to a market and pick out several pieces of over ripe fruit. At
the same time, buy a
pretty orange
and apple.
The night before the activity, inject the orange and apple with red food
coloring.
Present the fruit, arranged in a basket, to the class. Be sure all
the students can see it.
Have two volunteers select a piece of fruit to eat. They will usually
pick the apple or
orange because
the other fruit appears to be rotting.
Cut the apple and orange in half. The acid in both will have reacted
to the food
coloring making
it a dark, unappealing color. They will not want to eat it.
The point you are trying to get across is, you can't tell by looking at
someone if they
are HIV positive
or not.
Activity 2:
Arrange the empty six pack of sealed soda cans and at least four other
items the
students will recognize
on a table. Point to each item and ask students what they are.
Save the soda cans for
last. Be sure the students touch nothing.
The students will identify each item.
When you point to the soda can they will say Pepsi or Coke. Ask them
is they are
sure. They'll say they are.
Pick up a can and toss it to a student close to you. When they discover
the can is
empty they are mystified.
The point, again, is what you see is not always what you get.
2. Have the students complete the writing of their journals using a word processor.
Modifications:
Enrichment Activities:
Evaluation/Assessment:
| Journal | 100% |
WV
Instructional Goals and Objectives: Health:
Skills Development 6.3
Relationships 6.14, 7.12
Language Arts:
Writing 6.53, 6.66, 7.51, 7.52, 7.56, 7.64
Language 6.88, 6.89
Computer Technology 6.154, 6.155, 6.161,
7.164, 7.165
References: These ideas have been gathered from a number of conferences and workshops.
Created By: Nancy
Russell
Deborah Oxley
Karen Miller
Princeton Middle School
Date Created: May
14, 1999