Teaching Tools for the Classroom

STI Risks and Youth(2): Do a Class Survey and Report

Prepared By: Mary Shannon & Doug McCall
Sponsored By: www.sexualityandu.ca

Number of People for this WQ

• This WebQuest can be done by an individual student, or with two or three students working together. All students should visit all assigned websites and complete all of the activities individually in this WebQuest.

Outcomes for this WQ

• know more about STIs and how you can protect yourself
• test your own knowledge and personal risk of STI
• recognize that getting an STI is a risk that everyone faces, including you
• learn how to present health data in a graph

Special Materials for this WQ:

• None

Documents for This WQ

• There are no documents prepared specifically for this WebQuest

Student Tools for this WQ

• Personal Health Journal

Evaluation Criteria/Procedure

• Notes on assigned articles using Section 3.1 of Personal Health Journal
• Evaluation Criteria for Summary Reports

Introduction

Have you been told about STIs (Sexually Transmitted Infections)? You probably have. But, have you ever wondered how real that risk of infection is for you? For your friends? Guess which age group is at second highest risk of STI. You probably guessed it - youth!

Task

In this WebQuest you will prepare and administer a survey of your classmates to test their knowledge about sexually transmitted infections (STIs)

You will first read a number of selected web pages. Then you will test your knowledge on sexually transmitted infections by doing two online quizzes. Then you will prepare a survey of your classmates with the questions from those quizzes and other sources. Ask the questions you think are important but you will need to check those questions with your teacher. To conclude the WebQuest you will prepare a report on your findings.

Process and Steps

Don't forget to take notes on your activities in this WebQuest. Use Section 3.2 of your Personal Health Journal.

• First, go to these pages on the www.sexualityandu.ca website and learn or review some of the basic facts about STIs. Read about what they are, how you can protect yourself, how people get infected and how condoms can reduce the risk. Also read this fact sheet from the Canadian Health Network.
• Test your own knowledge: Try to answer the questions in this quiz on knowledge of Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs). s (STIs) and the related risks. (They are the first and third quizzes on this web page.) Find any surprises about your knowledge of STIs? Note them in your journal.
• Next, copy or type the questions from those two quizzes to make a survey for your classmates. Also, use the knowledge questions about STIs found in the 2002 study on youth sexual health done for the Council of Ministers of Education Canada. You will need to scroll down to page 58-59 of the PDF version of the document to find the questions on STIs.
• Make up a survey using the questions from the two quizzes and the national study. Make sure that your questions are clearly stated.
• Ask your teacher to review the questions on your survey before distributing it to your class. (You could do the survey before or after the class has been taught about STIs.) Be sure that your classmates have time to complete the survey. Be certain to note that all answers will remain anonymous and mix up the completed surveys so that you don't know who answered which survey.
• Compile the results of the survey. Identify the questions that most people answered correctly and incorrectly. In your summary report on this WebQuest, discuss the reasons why you think your classmates knew or did not know those answers. Also, go back to the 2002 national report and compare the average answers from your classmates and the average answers from the grade level closest to them in that study.
• Prepare a summary report on the survey and the new knowledge that have gained from this project. Ask your teacher how long this report should be and what should be in that report.

How Your Work will be Evaluated

Prepare a log of the web pages that you have read so far on this WebQuest and submit that log to your teacher. Use Section 3.1 of your Personal Health Journal to do so.

Your summary report for this WebQuest will be assessed using the Evaluation Criteria for Summary/Commentary Reports.

Conclusions and Extensions

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