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PATTERN OF LEsSON DEVELOPMENT - GRADE
-6
The lessons in the cluster focus on four objectives, namely:
• There are some diseases that are communicable diseases.
-AlOS is a comouloiaabledisease.
• There are skills to pndiœ that will lead to a healthful lifestyle.
• There are community JeIOU1'Ces for information, help, and counseling.
• There are methods ol preventionfor AIDS.
The pattern of lesson development identifies the learner outcomes as follows:
CommllniClible DiseIlSeS
COIØIIIIIlJic.ble
DiMIIMIAIDS
Hellltlrjlli Lifostyle
Commli1fity &sources
AlDS PTevention
19 Understand the chaín of
infection and now to
break it
110 UnderaWId the body'a
immune aystem
III Know wiiya AIDS
cannot be transmitted
lU Demonslriite respect
for personal priViiC)'
113 Understand the role of
personal behavior in
di8eiiSe prevention
117 Locate schooil
community resources
for AIDS information
'18 Understand how
abstinence from illegal
drug use can prevent
the transmission of the
AIDSvirus
114 Understand the
concept of risk and the
consequences ol risktaking
behiiviors
lIS Practice the respenslbilities
involved with
family, ~. and
school :",_,~-¡
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116 Recognize'the help
and support thiit
fiimiIy, friends, and
øchooI cm provide
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The goal in grade -6 is to equip students with the ability to take personal responsibility for their health and well-being. Whether the area be
setting personal limits, disease prevention, responding to risk-taking situations or family involvement, students are channeled to practice positive
behavíors that promote overall optimum health.
four lessons in the cluster are AIDS specific (Lesson #10, 111, 117, and 11.8).At this age level it is appropriate for students to understand that AIDS
is a communicable disease. The nature of the disease is outlined to provide studerits with a basic grasp of the impact of AIDS on one's immune
systern. This lesson alerts students to the serious implications of the AIDS virus. Itis meant to create auareness, not anxiety, in students. The second
AIDS specific lesson deals with the ways the AIDS virus cannot be transmitted. The third AIDS specific lesson deals with locating school/community
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