Your students will learn about the history of AIDS and the status of AIDS in the United States. Will also create ways to tell various demographic (人口的) groups in the US about the risk of HIV/AIDS.
Procedures
Tell students that December 1 is World AIDS Day. The US Department of Health and Human Services notes that since 1981, when AIDS was first discovered in the US, more than 20 million people worldwide have died from the disease.
Next , refer student groups to the online resources provided to learn more about AIDS, and the history of AIDS. Provide the following questions to guide the groups’ research:
What is HIV? How is it different from “full-blown” AIDS? How is HIV spread? How does it affect the human body?
What are ways in which individuals can protect them-selves from contracting (感染) HIV?
What groups of people are at the greatest risk of contracting HIV in the US?
Then, assign each group one of the following US demographic groups at risk of contracting HIV: teens, African-Americans, women or drug users. Challenge student groups to think of strategies (策略) for informing their assigned demographic groups about the risk of contracting HIA/AIDS.
As groups present their HIV/AIDS information, ask them to discuss their choice of plan, language used and information emphasized in their materials.
Related Standards
Health
Standard 1 : Know the availability and effective use of health services, and information.
Level III(Grades 6-8)
Benchmark 1. Understand how lifestyle,family history, and other risk factors are related to the cause or prevention of disease and other health problems.

学生们将了解艾滋病发展史和美国艾滋病现状，并学会以使用不同的方式告诉不同人群HIV/AIDS的风险。
程序
让学生知道12月1日是艾滋病日。美国卫生与公众服务部发现自1981年艾滋病首次被发现以来，全球超过2千万人死于该疾病。
然后，让学生通过网上的在线资源了解艾滋病和艾滋病发展史。对学生小组的调查提出以下问题：
什么是HIV?与艾滋病晚期有什么区别？HIV如何传播？它怎样破坏人体？
人们应如何自我保以护远离艾滋病？
那些是美国的艾滋病高危人群？
然后，给各小组中指定如下HIV接触风险人群：青少年，非洲裔美国人，妇女，吸毒者。让其设计对相应人群的艾滋病预防策略。
当各小组展示其HIV信息时，让其讨论方案、语言和资料要点的选择。
相关标准：
健康方面
1、了解医疗卫生服务以及相关信息的实用性和有效性。
第三级（6-8年级）
基准1：了解生活方式、家族史和其他风险因子如何与疾病及健康问题的产生和预防相关联。