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What Makes a Provider Culturally Safe?

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About this MicroSim

What Makes a Provider Culturally Safe? is an interactive MicroSim for this health-education textbook.

Students explain the specific practices that make a

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Bloom's Taxonomy level: Understand (L2) — explain, classify, exemplify

Lesson Plan

Audience

This MicroSim is designed for Grades 9-12. For the K-3 bands the teacher typically drives the activity on a shared screen; older students can explore the MicroSim independently.

Learning Objective

Students explain the specific practices that make a

This activity targets Bloom's Understand (L2) (explain, classify, exemplify).

Suggested Use (about 10 minutes)

  1. Warm up (2 min). Ask students what they already know about the topic and let one volunteer describe what they see on the screen.
  2. Model it (3 min). Demonstrate the interaction once, thinking aloud so students hear the reasoning behind each choice.
  3. Guided practice (3 min). Invite students to try the interaction and to predict what will happen before they act.
  4. Discuss (2 min). Ask why the result came out the way it did, connecting the on-screen result back to the learning objective above.

Check for Understanding

Have each student (or pair) explain their result in one sentence, using the vocabulary from this chapter. Look for reasoning that matches the Understand-level objective rather than a lucky guess.

Specification

The full specification below was extracted from Chapter 4: Healthcare Access and Sexual Health.

Type: infographic

**sim-id:** culturally-safe-provider-explorer<br/>
**Library:** p5.js<br/>
**Status:** Specified

Bloom Taxonomy Level: Understand (L2)
Bloom Verb: explain, classify, exemplify

Learning objective: Students explain the specific practices that make a
healthcare provider culturally safe and classify example provider
behaviors as culturally safe or culturally unsafe.

Canvas layout:
- Left (55%): a central node "Culturally Safe Provider" connected to four
  spokes: Asks Rather Than Assumes, Communicates Clearly, Acknowledges
  Historical Mistrust, Adapts Care to Context
- Right (45%): a scenario card showing a short provider behavior example
  and two buttons, "Culturally Safe" and "Culturally Unsafe"

Data Visibility Requirements:
  Stage 1: Show all four spokes and their one-sentence definitions as
  reference material
  Stage 2: Show one example provider behavior (12 examples in the bank,
  covering assumptions about family structure, language access, and
  historical mistrust)
  Stage 3: After the learner classifies the example, show whether they
  were correct and which spoke it relates to, with a one-line explanation
  Stage 4: Track a running count of correctly classified examples

Interactive controls:
- Click any spoke to see its expanded definition and a real-world example
- Button: "Culturally Safe" / Button: "Culturally Unsafe"
- Button: "Next Example"

Default parameters: Example bank cycles without repetition until
exhausted, then reshuffles

Instructional Rationale: This is an Understand-level objective, so the
design favors step-through classification with concrete examples over
animation. Testing the same four practices against varied provider
scenarios builds a transferable model of cultural safety rather than one
tied to a single narrow example.

Implementation notes: p5.js with an object array of {behavior, correctCategory,
relatedSpoke, explanation}; spokes highlighted in gold when active;
correct/incorrect feedback shown through color change and text panel.

References