Viral, Bacterial, AIDS, HIV Infection Lesson Plans

1. AIDS Fact Quilt- The purpose is for students to gather facts and identify myths associated with the transmission of HIV/AIDS.
2. AIDS Today- This activity engages students in learning about the AIDS epidemic and focuses them on the importance of HIV prevention, at home and abroad.
3. AIDS: Who's at Risk?- Analyze facts about who gets AIDS, how those populations have changed in the past few decades, and how AIDS is contracted.
4. Baby Project / Cost Analysis: First Year of Life- Students will determine the costs associated with teenage pregnancy and childbirth through age 1 of the child. By showing teens the high costs involved, they may make better decisions about becoming sexually active.
5. Big Sneeze- Students will learn how germs are spread.
6. Disease Prevention and HIV/AIDS Education- Compare viruses to other micro-organisms.
7. Disease Prevention and HIV/AIDS Education- Demonstrate decision-making and refusal skills for HIV prevention.
8. Diseases Without Borders- Students will use the European Union's struggle with Mad Cow Disease as a starting point to study the spread of infectious diseases across geographical boundaries.
9. Germs Everywhere- This helps you reinforce just how prevalent germs really are.
10. High-Risk Areas- In this lesson, students create concept maps exploring the "causes" of drug abuse that, in Siberia and around the world, often lead to the contraction of H.I.V.
11. HIV/AIDS Education: Grade 8- Schools share responsibility for HIV/AIDS education with parents, churches, community organizations, and social agencies.
12. HIV project- Students will be able to research and find possible solutions to a problem using a biological database.
13. HIV Transmission Game- To increase awareness of how quickly HIV and other STDs can be spread and how they can be stopped and to illustrate effects of peer pressure.
14. Noncommunicable/Communicable Diseases- To have students engaged in an activity where they research noncommunicable and communicable diseases.
15. STD Web- To give the students a first hand opportunity of seeing that when they are sexually active they are at risk of becoming infected with any type of STD.
16. Understanding HIV/AIDS and Promoting Awareness- Understand how the immune system fights HIV infection, and how HIV destroys the body's immune system.
17. Viral Invaders- In this lesson, students explore scientific information about the West Nile virus in order to analyze the accuracy of their own background knowledge on the topic.