What Do You Know About AIDS? 

    Grade Level (s): 6th & 7th grades

    Subject (s): Health,  Science, & Language Arts

    Learner Outcomes: Each student should be able to:
                                                     1.  define HIV & tell what each letter stand for.
                                                     2.  define AIDS and tell what each letter stands for.
                                                     3.  understand proper terminology for studying HIV-AIDS.
                                                     4.  use a word processor in preparing a journal.

    Duration of Lesson:  Two hours

    Materials:  Mini lecture
                              Glossary
                              Computer or chalkboard
                              Pre-Post test

    Technology Tools/Courseware: Computer hooked to internet, a slide maker program (Power
                                                                                 Point or Presentations), word processing software

    Teacher Notes:  A permission letter should be sent to each student's home informing the parents
                                          that you are starting a unit on HIV-AIDS.  Their permission should be required
                                          before their child could take this unit.

                            Teacher background information about HIV

    Procedures:  1.  Have students begin a journal expressing their thoughts and feelings about HIV and
                                        AIDS.  This journal will be kept throughout the unit. It will be kept on a word
                                        processor. The objective is to see a change from negative to positive in their
                                        thoughts and feelings.
                       2.  Pre-Post test
                                    3.  Hand out glossary - students must have access to the proper vocabulary to
                                         understand the lesson.
                                    4.  Mini lecture:  Explain what HIV & AIDS stand for.
                                                                  HIV - Human Immunodeficiency Virus
                                                                  AIDS - Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
                                                                  Acquired means it can be passed, in some way, from human to human.
                                                                   Immune refers to the system of the body that protects us from
                                                                  different types of germs.
                                                                  Deficiency refers to lack of.
                                                                  Syndrome refers a group of symptoms.
                                         Like the Pledge of Allegiance, a lot of students can tell you what HIV and AIDS
                                         stand for but they don't have the realization of the full meaning.
                                         HIV is the virus that causes the disease known as AIDS.
                                         People (of all ages) infected with HIV, at some point develop symptoms that can
                                         cause them to be mildly or seriously ill.  They finally reach the point that these same
                                         symptoms become life threatening.
                                         In a nut shell, HIV is the virus that causes AIDS.
                                    5. Word search puzzle
                                    6.  Pre-Post test and key

    WV Instructional Goals and Objectives:  Health:
                                                                                                          Relationships 6.17,  7.14
                                                                                                     Science:
                                                                                                          Nature of Science 7.6, 7.8, 7.9
                                                                                                          Science Themes and Subject 7.27, 7.29
                                                                                                          Computer Technology 7.87, 7.90, 7.91
                                                                                                     Language Arts:
                                                                                                          Reading Vocabulary 6.35, 7.42
                                                                                                          Writing 6.54, 7.51, 7.52, 7.55, 7.56, 7.64
                                                                                                          Language 6.88, 6.89, 7.91
                                                                                                          Computer Technology 6.154, 6.155, 6.160,
                                                                                                                                                   6.161, 7.164, 7.165, 7.167
    National Standards
     

    References:  Surgeon General
                                   Centers for Disease Control
                                   Ryan White Webpage
                                   Links for the Teacher

    Created By:  Nancy Russell
                                    Deborah Oxley
                                    Karen Miller

                                    Princeton Middle School

    Date Created:  May 14, 1999
     
     

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