© 2011 Baylor College of Medicine. This curriculum consists of five activities that explore part of the HIV/AIDS story. Students construct paper models of the HIV virus to understand its structure and how it replicates itself. Students learn how to calculate exponential growth, graph transmission rates, and plot the spread of HIV on a world map. They then focus on the United States when they create presentations about HIV/AIDS in America.
AMREF Canada: Icebreakers Grades 9 – 12, HIV Unit
© AMREF Canada | African Medical & Research Foundation, African Health Development Organization 2011. The number of child-headed households is growing in Africa and other parts of the world. This activity encourages students to think about children who have no parents or other adults at home and what these children would have to do to take care of themselves.
AIDS Vaccine Case Study
© 2007 University of Rochester. Life Sciences Learning Center. Students learn how the immune system responds to subunits of HIV virus genome and use immunoassays to determine the effectiveness of potential AIDS vaccines.
Access Excellence: The Spread of HIV Through a Population
© 1994-2009 by Access Excellence @ the National Health Museum. Students use a model to illustrate the spread of HIV, and they act as epidemiologists to explore the dilemmas of HIV infections. Students then produce a play, skit, or some other vehicle to present information about HIV to younger children.
Access Excellence: A Simulation of the Spread of HIV
© 1994-2009 by Access Excellence @ the National Health Museum. Students simulate sexual contact by exchanging fluid from test tubes filled with water and one containing sodium hydroxide (NaOH). The acid-base indicator, phenolphthalein, reveals who has been infected. The students then investigate where the original infection began.
Captain BIO: Attack of the Hep B Virus
© 2007-2010 Tim Peters and Company, Inc. Through the adventures of Captain Bio, kids journey inside the human body, where they discover Hepatitis B, how this virus is transmitted, and what it does to the human body.
EXCITE! Science Ambassador: Rodent-borne Diseases: Getting the Facts Out There
SAFER·HEALTHIER·PEOPLE™, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Department of Health and Human Services. Excellence in Curriculum Innovation through Teaching Epidemiology and the Science of Public Health (EXCITE). Students research hantavirus pulmonary syndrome to produce a public-service announcement in the form of a brochure, poster, radio announcement, or television commercial.
EXCITE! Science Ambassador: The Hantavirus Haunting: Solving the Case
SAFER·HEALTHIER·PEOPLE™, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Department of Health and Human Services. Excellence in Curriculum Innovation through Teaching Epidemiology and the Science of Public Health (EXCITE). Students become CDC scientists and investigate a recent outbreak of hantavirus. They identify the disease, the sequence of events, methods of transmission, and how to prevent the infection.
Confined! HD (SEPA)
© 2011, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Explore the biology of the foot and mouth disease virus (FMDV) through a graphic story. Different types of FMDV are portrayed as prisoners in a high-security laboratory on Plum Island. Learn about the impact of FMDV on the environment and how deadly the virus can be. The FMDV “prisoners” are plotting their escape while researchers seek to understand how to prevent the next wave of infection. Embedded in this graphic story are interactive activities that help the reader learn where in the world FMD outbreaks have occurred recently. Open the virus to see inside and learn about the parts. This app includes an essay and 30-minute radio documentary.
World of Viruses: Confined! (SEPA)
© 2011 The Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska. In this comic book, students read about the different types of the foot and mouth disease virus. The virus characters are prisoners at the Plum Island Animal Disease Center. Through the graphic story, readers learn how the foot and mouth disease virus is spread and what is being done to control it.
