AIDS: Common Threads Of Understanding
Lesson 2: The Path To Today

Grade Level: 9

Subjects: Health, Science, Social Studies

Learner Outcomes:

• Students will demonstrate proficiency in locating and using sites on the Internet.
• Students will learn the history of AIDS in the United States.
• Students will explore the rates of AIDS according to age, race, and sex.
• Students will develop a graph to reflect the increase of AIDS in the United States.

• Assignment 1: One 50 minute class period.
• Assignment 2: Two 50 minute class periods.
• Assignment 3: One 50 minute class period.

• Graph paper
• Rulers

Technology Tools/Courseware:

• Computer lab access
• Internet Access
• Printer access
• List of appropriate web sites (see references)
• Word processing program with graphing

Teacher notes:

• Review County/School policy on AIDS education.
• Reserve the school computer lab for three days.  Be sure Internet access is available.
• Assure that all students have signed and understood the Acceptable Use Policy.
• Secure Library use as back up.
• Students will need calculator to convert US percentages to numbers.
• Make sure students do not link to other AIDS related sites that may contain inappropriate materials.

• Students should go to AIDS 101 and click on Social Impact and then select Patient Zero. Have students read the story of Patient Zero and answer the following questions.  Conduct a class discussion on information gathered on the history of AIDS from this story.

Assignment 2:

• Have students go to AIDS 101 and click on Timeline.  Students should create a timeline  for 1979-1983 and 1998 to Now listing one important event listed in each time category. Students should then select statistics and create a graph of US and Global information.  Have students go to Aegis and click history.  Find North America and list statistics.

Modifications:

• Since Internet access to certain Internet web sites may not be available at one time or another, it is advisable to have library access available.
• IEP modifications should be considered in all assignments.

• Normal classroom grading scales should be applied to all assignments.

Enrichment Activities:

• At AIDS 101 have students identify famous individuals who have died from AIDS and the impact of their death on US society.
• Have students read the Ryan White story.
• Have students locate songs/movies/TV shows that address the issue of AIDS in the US.

• Health: National Standards

7. Knows how to maintain and promote personal health.
8. Knows essential concepts about the prevention and control of disease.
• Health Grade 9 IGOs: HE.3. HE.5, HE.22, HE.23, HE.28, HE.31, HE.33, HE.40, HE.59, HE.61, HE.62, HE.63
• Science National Standards:

Content Standard F: Develop understanding of personal and community health.
• Science Grade 9 IGOs: 9.1, 9.2, 9.25, 9.26, 9.93, 9.95, 9.98, 9.99, 9.101, 9.102, 9.104
• Social Studies: National Standards

Understands that group and cultural influences contributes to human development, identity and understanding.
• Social Studies Grade 9 IGOs: 9.45, 9.35, 9.51, 9.52, 9,54

Job/Career Clusters:

• Health
• Human Services

Activity 1: AIDS 101 Questions
1.  What does the story refer to AIDS as?                Mass Murderer
2.  What does AIDS stand for?                              Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
3.  Where and when was AIDS found?                         Zaire, Africa, 1976
4.  What year was AIDS taken seriously?                   1985
5.  What movie star brought attention to AIDS by his death?        Rock Hudson
6.  Who was the first person to die from complications from AIDS?    Margaret Rask, 1977
7.  When did the CDC make the first official announcement about AIDS?    June 5, 1981
8.  Who is Patient Zero?                                            Gaetan Dugas
9.  What was his job?                                                Airline Stewart
10. What was the original name for AIDS?                   GRID
11.  What did Dr. Meryvan Silverman do and when?       Ordered closure of bathouses, Oct. 9. '84
12. From 1981-82 how much did the CDC spend on AIDS?        One million

Assignment 2: Statistics
1. When did the epidemic start?
2. Number of adults and children living with HIV/AIDS?
3. Number of adults and children newly infected?
4. The adult prevalence rate?
5. Percent of women with AIDS?
6. What are the main means of transmission?

Activity 3: Information

STATE	# Adults/Adolescents with HIV/AIDS	Children < 13 years old	Total
West Virginia	*	*	*
*	*	*	*
*	*	*	*

Activity 3: Table 19 Statistics
 
 

Whites ages 15 - 24	*
Blacks 15 - 24	*
Hispanics ages 15 - 22	*
Asian ages 15 -24	*
American Indians	*
All Races	*

 
 

Authors:
Cheryl Conaway
Dr. Krystal Curtis
Mary A. Kuretza
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Overview

Lesson 1

Lesson 2

Lesson 3

Lesson 4

Lesson 5

 
 
 

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