HIV COMIC STRIP PROJECT
Students will use their notes from the prior class in order to complete this project. Use the steps taken to identify how HIV infects the body and relate it to something similar. For each of the 5 boxes inside the flow map, students will draw their story inside them. After drawing each box, the students will write a complete sentence for each box explaining how it relates back to HIV.
Project Steps:
1) Label the boxes in this order:
Invade, Attacks, Reproduces, Destroy and Move On.
2) Select something else that does the same thing and draw a cartoon of the process.
3) Write one complete sentence for each box describing what is going on inside of it and how it relates back to HIV.
DO NOT DRAW A COMIC STRIP OF HIV, THIS WILL RECEIVE NO CREDIT.
Example of how HIV infects the body
Invades
· The virus first attaches itself to the surface of the cell.
· The virus then fuses itself to the outer shell with the outer shell that it is invading.
Attacks
· The virus’s genes get mixed with and take over the cells genes.
Reproduces
· The virus uses the cell like a factory to make thousands of new viruses.
Destroys
· The new viruses are released into the blood where they can infect new cells.
Moves on
· The originally invaded cell dies.