CECmisc.70


TITLE:  RISK BEHAVIOR

AUTHOR:  Shirley Kapitzke, Pine Hills School;
         Miles City, MT

OVERVIEW:  This activity is to impact upon the students
the extent their behavior has to do with the possible
contractions of HIV and how they can control their
lives.

GRADE LEVELS:  7-12

PURPOSE:  To make the students aware of the far
reaching consequence their risk behavior can have on
their lives.

OBJECTIVES:  Students will be able to:
1.   Have a graphic picture of how far reaching risk
     behavior actually commands.
2.   Interact with their fellow students without
     embarrassment.
3.   Understand the ways to contact the Virus.
4.   Understand the way to avoid the Virus.
5.   Relate to what they have been studying on Aids.

RESOURCES/MATERIALS NEEDED:
1.   This activity is to follow having taught Aids 101
     to the students.
2.   Cut 3 by 5 cards into thirds using blue, orange,
     and white cards.

ACTIVITIES AND PROCEDURES:
1.   The teacher chooses a student before the class and
     in private talks to the student about being the
     one to be HIV.  This student must be willing to
     participate and must have a good self concept.
2.   The teacher passes out three business size cards
     to each student.  The student may choose the
     single color of all his cards, they may be all
     blue, all orange, or all white.
3.  The students write their name on the cards and then
     they exchange their cards with their fellow
     students.  Students are  to remember what the
     other student wants as a career as they exchange
     cards then they are to sit down.
4.   The student who has agreed to represent the HIV
     carrier, reveals his status as a person with aids
     and this student has been asked to exchange cards
     only with other students with colored cards.  The
     student reads off the names of the people that he
     has exchanged cards with and they are asked to
     stand.  Then the next student is to read their
     cards.  If the original card was a white card they
     did not engage in any of the risk behavior and
     they were just acquaintances and will remain
     seated.
5.   Inform the students that the blue cards represent
     the intravenous drug users, the orange cards
     represents unprotected sex, and  the white cards
     represent absence from both sex and drugs.
6.   Ask the students to reveal what their future
     career choices were and how the risk behavior
     would affect their futures.

TYING IT TOGETHER:  The students should have the
opportunity to tell how they are feeling about the
activity and how it affected them.  They will find that
it affects not only the person with the direct contact
with the virus but also those several times removed
from that initial person.  This activity brings home
all that they have learned about Aids in a very
personal way.