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Understanding the Columbian Exchange

In Two worlds: Educator's guide, page 5.1

This lesson will help students think about the effects of the Columbian Exchange, particularly the exchange of disease as it affected the psychology of the Europeans and Native populations in the early settlement of the Americas.

Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)

By Pauline S. Johnson.

Sex under the influence

The use of alcohol and other drugs increases the risk for unplanned, unprotected sex. This action exposes young people to HIV, other STDs, and pregnancy. The lesson engages students in the decision-making process regarding risk and checks their understanding of behaviors that put them at risk.

Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Healthful Living)

By Kathy Crumpler.

Mapping HIV infection in Africa

Using statistical information and maps, students will note the correlation between socio-economic factors and the impact of HIV/AIDS in the countries of Africa.

Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Science)

By Greg Mitchell.

Smallpox

In Prehistory, contact, and the Lost Colony, page 5.4

Smallpox is a serious, contagious, and sometimes fatal infectious disease caused by the variola virus. Historically, smallpox had a mortality rate of as much as 30 percent. In the Americas, it killed as much as 90 percent of the indigenous population after contact with Europeans introduced the disease. Smallpox is now eradicated after a successful worldwide vaccination program.

Format: article

AIDS in Africa Symposium

Students will take on roles of those with a unique perspective on the AIDS crisis in Africa. Taking part in a symposium, each character, famous and ordinary, makes a statement and participates in a question-answer period.

Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Science)

By Greg Mitchell.

Sanitariums

In North Carolina in the New South, page 5.8

In the late nineteenth century, sanitariums were built to house patients with tuberculosis, which was the leading cause of death in the United States. Western North Carolina's climate made it the perfect location for sanitariums.

Format: article

It's all about choice

Students will examine the different choices they make as supporting or undermining their intent to remain abstinent, including the affect of substance use on those choices.

Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Healthful Living)

By Kathy Crumpler.

Resources on the web

Germy surfaces

In this Science Update, from Science NetLinks, students hear Dr. Don Goldmann, an infectious disease specialist at Children's Hospital in Boston, discuss the transmission of cold and flu viruses. (Learn more)

Format: activity/lesson plan (grade 4 )

Provided by: American Association for the Advancement of Science