Health Education in Practice. Taking the Quilt to the Classroom: A Lesson about the Names Project AIDS Memorial Quilt.

Voss, Victoria; Frauenknecht, Marianne

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Publication Date: 1996

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Health Education in Practice. Taking the Quilt to the Classroom: A Lesson about the Names Project AIDS Memorial Quilt.

Voss, Victoria; Frauenknecht, Marianne

Health Educator: Journal of Eta Sigma Gamma, v27 n2 p33-36 Spr 1996

Presents ideas for a lesson that allows elementary and secondary students to experience an iconic representation of the Names Project AIDS Memorial Quilt in the classroom. By visualizing the quilt exhibit through pictures of individual panels, students can develop a greater appreciation of the human toll taken by the AIDS epidemic. (SM)

Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Comprehensive School Health Education, Consciousness Raising, Creative Teaching, Elementary School Students, Elementary Secondary Education, Experiential Learning, Health Promotion, Secondary School Students, Teaching Methods

Publication Type: Guides - Classroom - Teacher; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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