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,.¡:,. resources for AIDS information. The fourth AIDS specific lesson deals with the prevention of AIDS by abstaining from drug use. The intent here
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again is to reduce anxiety via understanding accurate transmission information. Itis appropriate to answer student questions about AIDS and AIDS
transmission as simply as possible and limit responses to questions asked. Depending on the district's needs assessment and recommendations of
the community Advisory Council, AIDS prevention lessons from the 7-8 grade-level cluster (Lesson #27a and #27b) may be introduced. Please note
that a student may be excused from the methods of prevention lessons upon receipt of a written request to a principal from a parent or guardian.
The lessons provide a framework for addressing AIDS instruction at the elementary level (K-6) according to Commissioner's Regulations. The
Regulation at the K-6 level requires that instruction be designed to provide accurate information concerning the nature of the disease, methods of
transmission, and methods of prevention stressing abstinence as the most appropriate and effective premarital protection against AIDS and be ageappropriate
and consistent with community values.
At the end of this grade-level cluster students should have achieved each of the desired learner outcomes identified in each lesson.
Correlations and coordination with existing 4-6 health education programs may well demonstrate that some learner outcomes in AIDS instruction
are well within existing programs and need not be repeated.