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Goals & Objectives:

Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), are very prevalent in the United States with alarming statistics. The estimated total number of people infected with the disease in the US is over 65 million. Every day there are 6,800 people diagnosed with an STD reaching over 19 million new cases a year. Some of these cases are curable, which is why we need to act now! There are 33.2 million people infected with the AIDS virus and 2.9 million died in the year of 2007 alone. The goal is to impower people to make wise decisions and not engaging in unprotective sexual activity.

Health Information:

• Investigate and evaluate the impact of the internet and technology on people engaging in unprotective sexual activity.

Health Behaviors:

• Analyze the relationship between risky sexual behaviors, peer pressure and its impact upon health and develop a comprehensive and realistic strategic plan to promote wise decisions, healthy practices and lifestyles.

Community Health:

• Develop a strategic plan to assist in the empowerment of one's self thereby not succumbing to peer pressure.

Technological Skills:

• Developing computer skills to access the internet.

Curriculum Standards:

This activity meets the following NJ Curriculum Standards:

Comprehensive Health & Physical Education

Standard 2.4: All students will learn the physical, emotional, and social aspects of human relationships and sexuality and apply these concepts to support a healthy, active lifestyle by analyzing the relationship between risky and unsafe sexual practices and personal health.

N.J.S.A. 18A:35-4.21 (2001)" The local board of ecucation shall include in its family life and HIV / AIDS curriculum instruction on reasons, skills and strategies for remaining or becoming abstinent from sexual activity. Any instructions concerning the use of contraceptives or prophylactically such as condoms shall also include information on thier failure rates for preventing pregnancy, HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases in actual use among adolescent populations and shall clearly explain the difference between risk reduction through the use of such devices and risk elimination through abstinence."

LEARNING STYLES: (Gregorc)

Concrete Sequential - Developing a power point, organize a grading rubric

Abstract Sequential - Designing a brochure

Concrete Random - Creating a poster and pamphlet

Abstract Random - The group work

MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES: (Gardner)

Logical/Critical thinking - Developing power point

Visual/Verbal - Oral presentation

Musical - Can use music during presentation

Body Kinesthetic - Physical movement - Making posters/ pamphlet

Interpersonal - Group activities

Interpersonal - Individual research and activities

Naturalist - Abstinence the nature way of preventing STD

Existentialist - People dying from STDs

INFORMATION PROCESSING MODEL OF MEMORY:

According to Sousa the senses (environment) effect information that is being stored into our sensory register. Once information is registered it either dumps or moves on to our immediate-working-long term memory. The nursing students will learn the facts about STDs, and demonstrate long term memory via presentation, power point, poster, brochure, and pamphlets. The information will register in declarative memory bank process by the hippocampus and cerebrum. Declarative is also divided into episodic and semantic memory . If a student has experience dealing with an STD, the information being gathered to teach his/her patients will trigger her episodic memory (Sousa pg 83).

Sousa also includes the nondeclarative memory. The nondeclarative memory exists in several different forms including procedural memory, motor skill memory, and emotional memory. If the student knows someone suffering from a STD , the information that has been learned triggers the amygdala and then is registered into long term memory bank. (Sousa pg. 83)

Sense & Meaning:

Sense: Knowledgeable regarding Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs) and the consequences of engaging in unprotected sexual activity and its impact upon personal health.

Meaning: Promoting information to peers, the patients by utilizing the Powerpoint, posters, regarding the consequences of engaging in risky sexual behaviors. Information is most likely to get stored if it makes sense and has meaning. (Sousa, 2001).

Primacy & Recency:

- The overall presentation is 30 minutes

- Prime Time 1: The primary focus will be on the main points on which they will be elaborating on in their presentation, to be given to their teacher to be critiqued for feedback.

- Down Time: The process of group discussion and rehearsal.

- Prime Time 2: The process of digesting what has been learned, what was meaningful to the students, and made sense to them. This is also the time for presenting the Powerpoint, and the posters.