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Lesson Plans - Health

Surviving AIDS

To help students understand the facts and issues surrounding HIV and AIDS by creating a newspaper supplement containing information gathered from research.

The Science of HIV

An effective way of preventing the spread of AIDS is through education in the form of community awareness campaigns.

HIV project

Students will be able to research and find possible solutions to a problem using a biological database.

Students will be able to read and understand amino acid sequences and alignments produced by Biology Workbench.

Students will be able to identify common mutation locations in HIV-1 envelope proteins and human CD4 proteins and make research/treatment recommendations based on this information.

HIV/AIDS Education

Students will know and use appropriate health resources to understand the impact of HIV/AIDS on the family .

Students will understand that discussing HIV/AIDS brings up many sensitive issues such as intravenous drug use, human sexuality and homosexuality, illness and disability, and life and death.

Aids: Who’s at Risk?

Students will do the following:
1. Analyze facts about who gets AIDS, how those populations have changed in the past few decades, and how AIDS is contracted
2. Advocate for AIDS awareness and prevention