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Bloodborne Pathogen Program

 

                             Salt Lake City School District 3rd and 4th grade

                         BLOOD BORNE PATHOGENS EDUCATION CURRICULUM

As part of the Healthy Lifestyles Curriculum, the State Office of Education has developed an AIDS Education Curriculum for grades 3-12. School Districts are mandated by State Law to teach this curriculum. The SLC School District has expanded this curriculum to include other blood borne pathogens, particularly Hepatitis B (HBV) and Hepatitis C (HCV). The following is the state outline for 3rd – 6th grades. The lesson will be taught by a registered school nurse, using a SLCSD approved DVD, and PowerPoint presentation, followed by a question-and-answer session. If you would like to preview the material, please contact your school nurse..

Students will develop a basic understanding of communicable diseases and the immune system, and how diseases caused by bloodborne pathogens compare and differ with other diseases.

  1. Discuss ways that the diseases caused by bloodborne pathogens are similar to other diseases.
  2. Describe how bloodborne diseases are difficult to contract and usually do not affect children.
  3. List the ways people cannot contract bloodborne diseases.
  4. Explain how the scientific community is working hard to find a cure for diseases caused by bloodborne pathogens.
  5. Discuss strategies for disease prevention such as decision-making skills and potential consequences for risky behaviors.

The primary emphasis of this lesson is to educate students about HIV and other bloodborne diseases, modes of transmission, and how to protect themselves from exposure. The discussion at this level has been developed to establish a foundation for a more detailed discussion of sexuality in the intermediate grades and ease fears about bloodborne diseases.

Children should recognize that bloodborne diseases cause some adults to get very sick, but they do not commonly affect children. They should understand that these diseases are very hard to get and that one cannot contract them by casual contact with someone who has one of these diseases. We aim to inform students that many scientists throughout the world are working hard to find a cure.

SAMPLE LESSON PLAN FOR 3RD AND 4TH GRADERS

  1. Define the following bloodborne pathogens: AIDS, HIV, HBV, HCV. Discuss the AIDS and HIV acronyms as follows:

A

Acquired

(Something you get)

I

Immune

(A system in your body that fights diseases)

D

Deficiency

(You are lacking or missing something)

S

Syndrome

(A whole collection of signs and symptoms)

(Therefore, AIDS means that your body lacks a way to fight diseases)

                            H. Human (It is a disease in humans only)

                            I.  Immunodeficiency (Refer to definition above)

V.  Virus (The germ that causes HIV is a virus)

  1. Discuss the spread of germs and how they spread disease.

Bacteria – Are single celled organisms that live all around us. They cause diseases such as strep throat and pink eye, which can be treated with antibiotics.

Viruses – Cause diseases such as common cold, flu, and chicken pox that cannot be treated with antibiotics.

How do people typically become infected?

  • Sneezing
  • Sharing utensils and drinking glasses
  • Breathing in the bacteria or virus
  • Touching a contaminated surface, then touching your eyes, mouth or nose
  • Not washing your hands after going to the bathroom or before eating

  1. Discuss how a healthy our immune system is the body’s defense against infection.
  1. Many diseases are spread by coughing, sneezing, and contaminated objects.
  1. Bloodborne pathogens are very different from a cold or flu virus. Rather than being spread through casual contact, they are spread by direct contact with blood.
  1. Blood borne diseases usually do not affect children.

  1. List ways bloodborne pathogens cannot be contracted:
  • Sneezing
  • Sharing utensils and drinking glasses
  • Sitting next to someone with the disease
  • Taking care of someone with the disease
  • Living in the same house with someone who has the disease
  • Touching someone with the disease
  • Holding hands
  1. People get bloodborne diseases by coming into contact with an infected person’s blood.

  1. How can you keep or prevent yourself from getting a bloodborne disease?
  • Don’t touch anyone’s blood. If someone needs first aid, get an adult to help
  • Don’t share blood like “Blood Brothers/Blood Sisters”
  • Tattoos, ear, or other body piercings should be done only by professionals
  • Don’t use illegal drugs. Explain that needles are sometimes used to inject illegal drugs
  • Don’t pick up needles or syringes anywhere, instead get an adult to help
  • Do not put your hands in trash cans
  1. There is no cure or vaccine for many of these diseases, but scientists are working hard to find a cure.

                                              3RD AND 4TH GRADE QUESTIONS

  1. T
  2.  T
  3. T

F

F F

People can give each other diseases. Bloodborne diseases are caused by viruses.

Your body’s immune system can protect you from many infections.

   4. T

F

AIDS, HBV, HVC, etc. can be cured.

     5. T

F

Children who attend school with someone who has a bloodborne

                   disease can catch the disease by sitting next to them.

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Salt Lake City School District 5th and 6th grade

BLOODBORNE PATHOGENS EDUCATION CURRICULUM

As part of the Healthy Lifestyles Curriculum, the State Office of Education has developed an AIDS Education Curriculum for grades 3-12. Teachers are mandated by State Law to teach this curriculum. The SLC School District has expanded this curriculum to include other bloodborne pathogens, particularly Hepatitis B (HBV) and Hepatitis C (HCV). The following is the state outline for 3rd – 6th grades. The lesson will be taught by a registered school nurse, using a SLCSD approved DVD, and PowerPoint presentation, followed by a question and answer session. If you would like to preview the material to be used please contact your school nurse.

Students will develop a basic understanding of communicable diseases and the immune system, and how diseases caused by bloodborne pathogens compare and differ with other diseases.

  1. Define viruses, tell how they transmit disease and list diseases that are caused by viruses.
  2. Discuss how people infected with a virus can infect others yet have no symptoms.
  3. Develop a definition for bloodborne disease.
  4. Define opportunistic diseases.
  5. Define the term epidemic and pandemic and explain why AIDS is pandemic.
  6. List the primary modes of transmission of bloodborne diseases.
  7. Describe ways bloodborne diseases cannot be transmitted.
  8. Discuss strategies for disease prevention such as decision making skills and potential consequences for risky behaviors.

Education about bloodborne pathogens at the intermediate grade level is designed to provide information to form a framework for more advanced discussion material at the secondary level.

The primary emphasis of this portion of the curriculum is to explain to students the physiology of bloodborne diseases, i.e., what a virus is, what opportunistic diseases are, what the primary modes of transmission are, etc. In presenting this information, nurses should recognize that students are likely to be:

  • Aware of sexual feelings and desires and confused about these feelings.
  • Increasingly sensitive to media and peer pressure.
  • Capable of concern for others.
  • Exploring sex roles.
  • In different stages of pre-puberty and early puberty and, therefore, very interested in learning about sexuality and relationships.
  • Quite comfortable discussing human sexuality.
  • Confused between fact and fantasy, between hypothesis and reality.
  • Able to internalize rules and to know what is right or wrong according to those rules.

This portion of the curriculum is recommended by the Centers for Disease Control as appropriate for the intermediate grades. These objectives are not complex and should focus on the physiology of the disease and attempt again to eliminate the fears and fallacies children have concerning bloodborne diseases.

SAMPLE LESSON PLAN FOR 5TH AND 6TH GRADERS

  1. Define the diseases AIDS, HIV, HBV, HCV. For example:

                          A . Acquired (Something you get)

            I. Immune (A system in your body that fights disease)

          D. Deficiency (You are lacking or missing something)

           S. Syndrome (A whole collection of signs and symptoms)

         

          H. Human (It is a disease in humans only)

            I.  Immunodeficiency (Refer to definition above)

          V. Virus (The germ that causes HIV is a virus)

  1. Define Epidemic and Pandemic
    • Epidemic: 100ʼs or 1000ʼs in a small area infected with a disease. For example: Head lice might be epidemic in your school.
    • Pandemic: Millions, worldwide, AIDS is pandemic
  2. Two types of microbes (tiny living things, germs) that cause disease:

Bacteria: Are single celled organisms that live all around us. They cause diseases such as strep throat and pink eye, which can be treated with antibiotics.

Viruses: Cause diseases such as the common cold, flu, and chicken pox that cannot be be treated with antibiotics.

  • Viruses can cause serious illness. Once a virus gets into a cell, the virus can make hundreds of copies of itself to overpower our bodyʼs natural defenses and make us sick.
  • The incubation period of viruses varies in length, making it difficult to determine with certainty whether or not a person is infected. An infected person might not show any symptoms for months and possibly even years, but still be contagious.

How do people typically become infected?

  • Sneezing
  • Sharing utensils and drinking glasses
  • Breathing in the bacteria or virus
  • Touching a contaminated surface, then touching your eyes, mouth, or nose
  • Touching a rash or sore and putting your hand in your mouth or eyes
  • Not washing your hands after going to the bathroom or before eating

  1. Discuss how a healthy immune system is the bodyʼs defense against infection.
  2. Discuss the ways that people can be exposed to bloodborne diseases.

  • Coming in contact with other peopleʼs blood and other body fluids, for example: during sexual contact, sharing needles during IV drug use, unprofessional body piercing, tattooing, fighting, and picking up used needles on the playground, etc.
  • An HIV positive mother could pass it on to her unborn child.
  • Blood transfusions, tissue and organ transplants, and donating blood is safe.
  1. List ways bloodborne pathogens cannot be contracted:
    • Sneezing
    • Sharing utensils and drinking glasses
    • Sitting next to someone with the disease
    • Taking care of someone with the disease
    • Eating in a restaurant where the cook has the disease
    • Living in the same house with someone who has the disease
    • Touching someone with the disease
    • Holding hands
    • Playing sports with someone who has the disease

  1. Bloodborne diseases are difficult to contract. You have to engage in risky behaviors in order to get them. It is up to you to protect yourself from bloodborne diseases.
  2. How do you protect yourself from getting a bloodborne disease?
    • Never touch anyoneʼs blood or bodily fluids. If someone needs first aid get an adult to help.
    • Donʼt pick up needles or syringes anywhere, instead get an adult to help.
    • Do not put your hands in trash cans.
    • Abstinence from sexual contact.
    • DONʼT DO DRUGS.
    • Avoid fighting.

                           5th and 6th Questions

  1. AIDS is a disease caused by what bloodborne virus?
  2. HIV weakens the immune system, allowing opportunistic infections to occur. T/F
  3. You can tell if someone has a bloodborne disease because they look sick. T/F
  4. Diseases caused by bloodborne pathogens are passed from person to person by                      .
    • Hugging
    • Sneezing
    • Sexual Contact
    • Drug use
  5. Illnesses caused by both bacteria and viruses can be cured with medication. T/F
  6. AIDS is a Pandemic. T/F
  7. AIDS and other diseases caused by bloodborne pathogens are easy to catch. T/F

 

Salt Lake City School District 5th and 6th grade

BLOODBORNE PATHOGENS EDUCATION CURRICULUM

As part of the Healthy Lifestyles Curriculum, the State Office of Education has developed an AIDS Education Curriculum for grades 3-12. Teachers are mandated by State Law to teach this curriculum. The SLC School District has expanded this curriculum to include other bloodborne pathogens, particularly Hepatitis B (HBV) and Hepatitis C (HCV). The following is the state outline for 3rd – 6th grades. The lesson will be taught by a registered school nurse, using a SLCSD approved DVD, and PowerPoint presentation, followed by a question and answer session. If you would like to preview the material to be used please contact your school nurse.

Students will develop a basic understanding of communicable diseases and the immune system, and how diseases caused by bloodborne pathogens compare and differ with other diseases.

  1. Define viruses, tell how they transmit disease and list diseases that are caused by viruses.
  2. Discuss how people infected with a virus can infect others yet have no symptoms.
  3. Develop a definition for bloodborne disease.
  4. Define opportunistic diseases.
  5. Define the term epidemic and pandemic and explain why AIDS is pandemic.
  6. List the primary modes of transmission of bloodborne diseases.
  7. Describe ways bloodborne diseases cannot be transmitted.
  8. Discuss strategies for disease prevention such as decision making skills and potential consequences for risky behaviors.

Education about bloodborne pathogens at the intermediate grade level is designed to provide information to form a framework for more advanced discussion material at the secondary level.

The primary emphasis of this portion of the curriculum is to explain to students the physiology of bloodborne diseases, i.e., what a virus is, what opportunistic diseases are, what the primary modes of transmission are, etc. In presenting this information, nurses should recognize that students are likely to be:

  • Aware of sexual feelings and desires and confused about these feelings.
  • Increasingly sensitive to media and peer pressure.
  • Capable of concern for others.
  • Exploring sex roles.
  • In different stages of pre-puberty and early puberty and, therefore, very interested in learning about sexuality and relationships.
  • Quite comfortable discussing human sexuality.
  • Confused between fact and fantasy, between hypothesis and reality.
  • Able to internalize rules and to know what is right or wrong according to those rules.

This portion of the curriculum is recommended by the Centers for Disease Control as appropriate for the intermediate grades. These objectives are not complex and should focus on the physiology of the disease and attempt again to eliminate the fears and fallacies children have concerning bloodborne diseases.

SAMPLE LESSON PLAN FOR 5TH AND 6TH GRADERS

  1. Define the diseases AIDS, HIV, HBV, HCV. For example:

                          A . Acquired (Something you get)

            I. Immune (A system in your body that fights disease)

          D. Deficiency (You are lacking or missing something)

           S. Syndrome (A whole collection of signs and symptoms)

         

          H. Human (It is a disease in humans only)

            I.  Immunodeficiency (Refer to definition above)

          V. Virus (The germ that causes HIV is a virus)

  1. Define Epidemic and Pandemic
    • Epidemic: 100ʼs or 1000ʼs in a small area infected with a disease. For example: Head lice might be epidemic in your school.
    • Pandemic: Millions, worldwide, AIDS is pandemic
  2. Two types of microbes (tiny living things, germs) that cause disease:

Bacteria: Are single celled organisms that live all around us. They cause diseases such as strep throat and pink eye, which can be treated with antibiotics.

Viruses: Cause diseases such as the common cold, flu, and chicken pox that cannot be be treated with antibiotics.

  • Viruses can cause serious illness. Once a virus gets into a cell, the virus can make hundreds of copies of itself to overpower our bodyʼs natural defenses and make us sick.
  • The incubation period of viruses varies in length, making it difficult to determine with certainty whether or not a person is infected. An infected person might not show any symptoms for months and possibly even years, but still be contagious.

How do people typically become infected?

  • Sneezing
  • Sharing utensils and drinking glasses
  • Breathing in the bacteria or virus
  • Touching a contaminated surface, then touching your eyes, mouth, or nose
  • Touching a rash or sore and putting your hand in your mouth or eyes
  • Not washing your hands after going to the bathroom or before eating

  1. Discuss how a healthy immune system is the bodyʼs defense against infection.
  2. Discuss the ways that people can be exposed to bloodborne diseases.

  • Coming in contact with other peopleʼs blood and other body fluids, for example: during sexual contact, sharing needles during IV drug use, unprofessional body piercing, tattooing, fighting, and picking up used needles on the playground, etc.
  • An HIV positive mother could pass it on to her unborn child.
  • Blood transfusions, tissue and organ transplants, and donating blood is safe.
  1. List ways bloodborne pathogens cannot be contracted:
    • Sneezing
    • Sharing utensils and drinking glasses
    • Sitting next to someone with the disease
    • Taking care of someone with the disease
    • Eating in a restaurant where the cook has the disease
    • Living in the same house with someone who has the disease
    • Touching someone with the disease
    • Holding hands
    • Playing sports with someone who has the disease

  1. Bloodborne diseases are difficult to contract. You have to engage in risky behaviors in order to get them. It is up to you to protect yourself from bloodborne diseases.
  2. How do you protect yourself from getting a bloodborne disease?
    • Never touch anyoneʼs blood or bodily fluids. If someone needs first aid get an adult to help.
    • Donʼt pick up needles or syringes anywhere, instead get an adult to help.
    • Do not put your hands in trash cans.
    • Abstinence from sexual contact.
    • DONʼT DO DRUGS.
    • Avoid fighting.

5th and 6th Questions

  1. AIDS is a disease caused by what bloodborne virus?
  2. HIV weakens the immune system, allowing opportunistic infections to occur. T/F
  3. You can tell if someone has a bloodborne disease because they look sick. T/F
  4. Diseases caused by bloodborne pathogens are passed from person to person by                      .
    • Hugging
    • Sneezing
    • Sexual Contact
    • Drug use
  5. Illnesses caused by both bacteria and viruses can be cured with medication. T/F
  6. AIDS is a Pandemic. T/F
  7. AIDS and other diseases caused by bloodborne pathogens are easy to catch. T/F