HIV/AIDS

For this blog I chose a Wellness 10 class, Challenges for Wellness: HIV/AIDS Education. Advocates for youth is a website where children can go to learn about HIV/AIDS. This website is a great tool to teach your students about preventing and how to protect themselves from HIV/AIDS. It also teaches your students about how they can get HIV/AIDS and who is at risk. This website would be great for a project on HIV/AIDS, as it has so many tools that will answer all of the students questions. It is also a good tool to learn about sexual health and sexual education which are all things that students at this age are nervous to talk about. I would use this website as an introduction to HIV/AIDS unit. I would allow children to search this website and ask any questions they had about HIV/AIDS. Next I would get them to look at a specific tool to preventing HIV/AIDS. For example I would tell them to click on Condoms and there it would lead my students to several questions they probably had before, but were too afraid to ask. This allows them to look at it without being scared or embarrassed. After the students have looked through this website, I would begin the lesson. The children would be more comfortable talking about it because they now have a bit of knowledge about HIV/AIDS and the students would have more input. This site will help the children to learn about all the effects and preventions to HIV/AIDS and they can see it in a way that will not embarrass them. It also teaches them many other aspects to Health and Sexual Education.
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