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Surviving AIDS

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Enhance your middle and high schoolers' research skills with this activity. After viewing a video clip about HIV and AIDS, high schoolers identify the facts and issues surrounding the disease. They work together to create a newspaper article containing the information they gathered during research, carefully analyzing any conflicting information they found. Use this activity as a way to practice writing across the curriculum.

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conflicting information, hiv/aids, immunodeficiency diseases

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aids, conflicting information, writing across the curriculum, ccss.ela-literacy.w.11-12.2, science
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8th - 12th
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Science
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