Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…

With the announcement earlier this week of a possible breakthrough in finding a vaccine against HIV, I thought I’d put together a quick list of related resources that are accessible to English Language Learners.

This is not by any means exhaustive, and I’m hopeful readers will contribute additional links.  They’re not in any particular order. Some of these sites are probably not appropriate for younger students.

Here are my choices for The Best Web Resources For Learning About HIV & AIDS (and are accessible to English Language Learners):

The CBBC Newsround, as usual, has an excellent feature on AIDS that’s very accessible to ELL’s. It’s called What is Aids?

The National Institutes of Health has an excellent interactive tutorial on AIDS and HIV.

Here’s another simple explanation, with pictures, that has the same title What Is Aids? It’s from the Japa Network, which also hosts two good quizes: HIV & AIDS: How much do you know? and another one.

Evolution Of AIDS comes from the Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail.

Students can learn about AIDS (and spelling) from the Avert AIDS game.

AIDS- 25 Years is an Associated Press interactive. This feature, like the one at The Globe and Mail, is a few years old, but still contains a lot of useful information.

The CBC has an interactive map showing the world-wide presence of HIV and AIDS.

Here’s a exercise on AIDS designed for ELL’s.

About HIV and AIDS is a simple animation that provides audio support for the text. It’s from Healthy Roads.

MSNBC has a similar map.

Here’s a very accessible and informative quiz on AIDS.

Here’s a simple reading and quiz designed for ELL’s titled Is it Difficult to Catch HIV/AIDS?

What Would You Do? is an online game from UNICEF.

HIV: How can I protect myself? is a cloze (gap-fill) exercise for ELL’s.

Patient Voices: AIDS and H.I.V. is from The New York times and shares short interviews with people diagnosed with HIV. It might only be accessible to high Intermediate ELL’s.

The Peace Corps has a simple quiz that is quite good. Click on “Edzi Todo Quiz” on this page (there’s not a direct link).

HIV Epidemic– Vietnam is an interactive from The Wall Street Journal.

Hope: Living and Loving With HIV in Jamaica is an exceptionally touching presentation.

Camp Heartland is a TIME Magazine interactive presentation on a summer camp for HIV-infected children.

National Geographic has an extensive multmedia feature on AIDS in Africa.

The Face Of Aids is a slideshow from MSNBC.

It’s Up To Us is a downloable curriculum on AIDS designed for English Language Learners.

Here’s a Webquest titled It Won’t Happen To Me! that’s designed for ELL’s.

CBS News has an impressive interactive titled AIDS: The Modern Pandemic.

Marking World AIDS Day is a slideshow from The Wall Street Journal.

The Face of AIDS is a slideshow from MSNBC. The same site has an interactive map with updated statistics from around the world.

Suggestions are always welcome.

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