Lesson Plans
HIV/AIDS and STIs Print

HIV/AIDS Password
Purpose: To introduce vocabulary about HIV and AIDS and to present methods for seeking additional information about HIV.
Age group: 13 - 18 years old
Time: 45 minutes
Source: Guide to Implementing TAP (Teens for AIDS Prevention): A Peer Education Program to Prevent HIV/STD Infection

HIV/AIDS: Questions and Answers
Purpose: To provide an opportunity to ask questions about HIV and AIDS
Age group: 12 - 18 years old
Time: 40-50 minutes
Source: Life Planning Education: A Youth Development Program

HIV Transmission Game
Purpose: To increase awareness of how quickly HIV and other STIs can be spread and how they can be stopped and to illustrate effects of peer pressure
Age group: 13 - 18 years old
Time: 30 minutes
Source: Guide to Implementing TAP (Teens for AIDS Prevention): A Peer Education Program to Prevent HIV/STD Infection

If Someone Says
Purpose: To increase comfort and skills for communicating about HIV/AIDS and to increase ability to correct misinformation
Age group: 13 - 18 years old
Time: 30 minutes
Source: Life Planning Education: A Youth Development Program

Learning the Language of HIV/AIDS
Purpose: To introduce the vocabulary of the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
Age group: 12 - 18 years old
Time: 30-45 minutes
Source: Life Planning Education: A Youth Development Program

News on HIV and AIDS
Purpose: To identify and evaluate sources of HIV/AIDS information
Age group: 12 - 18 years old
Time: Ongoing—15 minutes of discussion per story
Source: Life Planning Education: A Youth Development Program

Panel of People with AIDS
Purpose: To develop compassion for people with AIDS (PWAs) and to reduce fears of contracting HIV from casual contact
Age group: 12 - 18 years old
Time Session 1: 30 minutes; Session 2: 60 minutes; Session 3: 30 minutes
Source: Life Planning Education: A Youth Development Program

Rating Behaviors for HIV Risk
Purpose: To identify sexual behaviors that transmit HIV and those that do not
Age group: 12 - 18 years old
Time: 30 minutes
Source: Life Planning Education: A Youth Development Program

Role-Playing
Purpose: To practice communicating comfortably and effectively about AIDS
Age group: 12 - 18 years old
Time: 60-90 minutes
Source: Life Planning Education: A Youth Development Program

STD Basketball
Purpose: To provide information about STDs, how they are contracted, and how they affect health
Age group: 12 - 18 years old
Time: 40-50 minutes
Source: Life Planning Education: A Youth Development Program

STD/HIV Handshake
Purpose: To increase awareness of how quickly HIV and other STDs can be spread
Age group: 12 - 18 years old
Time: 30 minutes
Source: Life Planning Education: A Youth Development Program

 
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