http://www.answers4families.org/professional/school-health/infection-control/guidance-hiv/aids-nebraska-public-schools/curriculum
Provides curriculum guidelines for AIDS education for grades K-5, For second grade the focus was on hand sanitation, spread of disease, disease prevention
http://www.emc.cmich.edu/HIV/K-6.htm
This website provides resources and curriculum for grades K-5. For second grade students would be reading a book and then learning about how AIDS is not spread. In addition, it shows how to teach kids ways in which to spread compassion to other people that have AIDS
http://www.nde.state.ne.us/HEALTH/kin.htm#LL2
Teaching guide for kindergarten to second grade, eliminating rumors
The Nation's public and private schools have the capacity and responsibility to help assure that young people understand the nature of the AIDS epidemic and the specific actions they can take to prevent HIV infection, especially during their adolescence and young adulthood.
Because the virus is transmitted almost exclusively by behavior that individuals can modify, educational programs to influence relevant behavior can be effective in preventing the spread of HIV.1–5
The principal purpose of education about AIDS is to prevent HIV infection.
Educational programs should assure that young people acquire the knowledge and skills they will need to adopt and maintain types of behavior that virtually eliminate their risk of becoming infected.
Education about AIDS may be most appropriate and effective when carried out within a more comprehensive school health education program that establishes a foundation for understanding the relationships between personal behavior and health.7–9 For example, education about AIDS may be more effective when students at appropriate ages are more knowledgeable about sexually transmitted diseases, drug abuse, and community health. It may also have greater impact when they have opportunities to develop such qualities as decision making and communication skills, resistance to persuasion, and a sense of self-efficacy and self-esteem. However, education about AIDS should be provided as rapidly as possible, even if it is taught initially as a separate subject.
Early Elementary School
Education about AIDS for students in early elementary grades principally should be designed to allay excessive fears of the epidemic and of becoming infected.
AIDS is a disease that is causing some adults to get very sick, but it does not commonly affect children.
AIDS is very hard to get. You cannot get it just by being near or touching someone who has it.
Scientists all over the world are working hard to find a way to stop people from getting AIDS and to cure those who have it.
An effective HIV/AIDS prevention program for teens and young adults must begin before they become sexually active, i.e., in during their elementary school years because past research indicates that it is more effective to either delay the age of initiation of sexual intercourse and/or prevent the adoption of unsafe practices than to intervene once patterns of sexual activity are established among adolescents; early sexual activity rarely is followed by abstinence.
This website has a curriculum with lesson plans corresponding handouts and activities for AIDS education in grades K- 5 grade.
• http://www.uah.edu/colleges/liberal/education/S1998/jlk.html#Lesson%20Plans
Objectives: The main purpose of doing an HIV/AIDS presentation to young children is to help eliminate many fears. The focus of this lesson is to stop the spread of rumors of how one can and cannot get AIDS.
Materials:Besides an attentive classroom, you would need to first get parental permission to do this lesson. You would also need a TV, VCR, and the Knox County Red Cross Chapter Video entitled Camp Itsamoungus. This is an animated video about a little boy at camp, and it looks at how he cannot spread the virus.
Course of Action:After a brief discussion on many facts that relate to everyday touching and life (like bug bites), we would proceed to watch the film. When the film was over, we would have a group discussion where the kids could ask any questions they have that were not answered by the film.
lesson on health and AIDS for 2nd grade
http://www.sasked.gov.sk.ca/docs/health/health1-5/grad21.html
National Coalition to Support Sexuality Education
http://www.ncsse.org/curriculum.html
Nebraska Department of Education HIV/AIDS Resources
http://www.nde.state.ne.us/HEALTH/haresour.htm
Two comprehensive annotated bibliographies of sex education and HIV/AIDS education materials. Includes books, pamphlets, posters, films, and curriculum materials.
MySistahs
http://www.mysistahs.org/health/HIV/index.htm
MySistahs is a website created by and for young women of color to provide information and offer support on sexual and reproductive health issues through education and advocacy.
Some common themes in K-2 curricula:
- Myths: eliminating fears and rumors, dispelling myths of how can or cannot get HIV/AIDS.
- Medicine: Scientists all over the world are trying to find a cure.
- Compassion: How to be a friend to someone who has AIDS.
- Connection to Sex Ed.: Not talking about sex for the first time in the context of AIDS education, but talking about unprotected sex as one cause of contracting HIV/AIDS if you have already broached sex education.
- Consistency: Do not expect one conversation to be enough. Continue to check in to check understanding.
- Parent Debrief: Communicate with parents (letter home, parent information night) to discuss the content of the curriculum, take questions, and address concerns they may have. As with any potentially controversial topic, initiating a dialogue with families is essential.