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PATTERN OF LESSON DEVELOPMENT - GRADES 9-12
The 9-12 grade-level cluster focuses on five objectives, namely:
.. There are some diseases that are communicable diseases.
- AIDS is a communicable disease.
• There are skills to practice which will lead to a healthful lifestyle.
• There are community resources for information, help, and counseling.
• There are methods of prevention for AIDS.
• There are social and economic implications of AIDS.
The learner outcomes within each of the objectives are delineated
as follows:
Communicable
Disease! AIDS Healthful Lifestyle Community Resources
#28 Know the spectrum of #30 Appreciate the value of #35 Identify thé commuthe
AIDS virus delaying sexual nity's present and
#29
activity projected responses to
Know ways the AIDS
AIDS
virus can and cannot #31 Practice skills in saying
be transrriitted
no
#32 Practice sending clear
messages through
effective verbal and
nonverbal communication
#33 Recognize and
evaluate media
messages regarding
sexuality
#34 Recognize responsibilities
of family and
community
AIDS Prevention
#36a Understand how
abstinence from illegal
drug use can prevent
the transmission of the
AIDS virus
#36b Understand how
abstinence from sexual
activity can prevent
transmission of the
A.llJS virus
#36c Understand how to
prevent the transmission
of the A..TDSvirus
to an unborn baby
Social and Economic
Implications
#37 Recognize balance
between rights of an
individual and rights
of society
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Instruction at this level is comprehensive and has the goal of helping students maintain and promote positive health behaviors that protect them
and others from infection with the AIDS virus. Many of the lessons focus on achieving a healthful lifestyle in which students are helped to examirn e
and affirm their values and to develop responsible decision making about how to say no, and how to recognize subtle media sex messages. Students
will learn to appreciate the value of delaying sexual activity. Students are given specific information about the spectrum of the AIDS virus and its
implications as well as information about the transmission factors associated with AIDS. Instruction at this level includes an examination of current
and projected community responses to AIDS as well as an examination of the social and economic issues raised by the disease, such as protecting
society without endangering individual rights.
Lessons #36a, #36b, and #36c constitute the prevention component of this cluster. While Lessons #36a and #36b stress abstinence, Lesson #36a
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