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Mahopac 428
Lesson 20 Grades 7-8
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Objective
Learner Outcome
Comprehensive Health
Education Topicís)
AIDS is a communicable disease.
Know ways the AIDS virus can and cannot be transmitted.
VI Diseases and Disorders
Values Integration Reasoning: Understanding the process of AIDS transmission.
Respect-for Self: Awareness and concern for one's own health.
Motivating Activity
Identification
Effective Communication
Decision Making
The teacher will distribute the AIDS MYTH-FACTSHEET.
Students will identify the ways that the AIDS virus can be transmitted:
II sharing needles (IV drug use)
• sexual intercourse with an infected partner
• infected mother to unborn baby
@ transfusion of infectious blood or blood fractions
Students will identify ways that the AIDS virus cannot be transmitted:
• sneezing
• sharing makeup, towels
• using public toilets
• using swimming pools
• eating at a restaurant
• being in the same class with someone who has AIDS
Students will discuss ways the AIDS virus can and cannot be transmitted.
Using the AIDS MYTH-FACTSHEET, students will decide under
which circumstances the AIDS virus can be transmitted.
Positive Health Behaviors Students will understand the ways the AIDS virus can be transmitted.
Students will recognize the ways that the AIDS virus cannot be
transmitted.
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