Introduction

Millions of people die because of AIDS.
AIDS is a worldwide illness, people from the Third and First world get infected and die, on the other hand AIDS people suffer a huge discrimination.
"It won't happen to me!". Is that what you think? that is a very common belief, but AIDS has got no colour, no sex, no economic or social status, maybe after looking for information and working with the topic you will have a different opinion.

This is the Big Question: May it happen to you?

Task

The task will be aimed to 4º ESO or Bachillerato and will take four weeks.

The final task will be double:

1) To create a virtual AIDS magazine with interviews and articles that will include all the info everybody should know about AIDS.

2) To organise an AIDS school campaign.

To create this magazine you will collaborate in a 4 reporters group. Each one of you will choose a role and will research about an aspect of the disease and its social discrimination.

Process

Activating Background:

Is AIDS a pandemic illness?
What's AIDS? What causes AIDS?,
AIDS Worldmap
Answer this AIDS questionnaire to see how much you know about it.

Part 1

1. Decide who is going to be assigned each role.

2. Use the "Resources" that have been selected for each role and the general resources.

3. Search for the information and write the interview and the article from the perspective of your role.

General resources:
Aids, sex and teens
United Nations
General information
AIDS World Day
Statistics - 2008 report
HIV images and Red Ribbons
HIV people pictures and text
Personal stories of young people with HIV
Experiences in HIV prevention from family planning associations worldwide (pdf)

4. After doing the tasks for each role, collect all the interviews and article in a magazine that will be of help in the AIDS campaign in your school

5. You will share your results in the classroom once a week and when you finish the magazine.

6. All the groups will make an oral presentation of the research and will discuss about the big question and their final answer.

Part 2

After you have gathered and shared your info, you will organise an AIDS campaign at school. In the campaign, each group will prepare one activity among the following ones:
- a seminar, (you can begin with a brainstorming)
- a mural and a poster competition
- a TV advert
- a radio spot
- a video script
- a film-forum ( eg: Philadelphia, Al filo de la duda…)
- a role-play containing different attitudes

DYNAMIC
a.Examine and analyse your info, discuss and organise it, then suggest any other ideas.
b.Discuss about the AIDS school campaign, share different activities, the aim is to aware all people from school: students, parents and teachers; and of course being helpful and supportive.
c. Decide which activity you are going to design for the campaign.
d. Read the Evaluation sheet all throughout the process.

And now, ……answer the Big Question: May AIDS happen to you?

Evaluation

- You will be evaluated in group, work hard to get the best marks and learn as much as you can!

- Content, visual presentation and grammatical and spelling correctness will be also evaluated.

Conclusion

Doing this WebQuest, you have learnt that everybody can be affected by AIDS, and so you should also be aware of the possibilities of being infected and avoid taking any risks.

Now, you can go on reading and learnign about AIDS in the next web sites:
http://www.avert.org/
Spanish questionnaire about AIDS
HIV and AIDS quizzes
World AIDS day Quiz
Women HIV and AIDS Quiz

Teacher's Notes

- This Webquest has been designed for students of Secondary Education of English as a Foreign Language

- The required level is pre-intermediate or intermediate. We think it can work better with students in Bachillerato (16, 17 years old), but it can also be done with students of 4º ESO (15 years old), if they like English.

- The objectives are to make students aware of the risks and possibilities of getting AIDS.
- From a linguistic point of view, students will benefit from reading extensively in English and will have to put into practice other skills such as summarizing, writing an interview, etc.

- It can be carried out in class (3 or 4 sessions to guide them through the process) and as part of their homework.