STI Transmission Routes Sorter¶
Specification¶
The full specification below is extracted from Chapter 3: Healthcare Access and Sexual Health.
Type: microsim
**sim-id:** sti-transmission-routes-sorter<br/>
**Library:** p5.js<br/>
**Status:** Specified
Bloom Taxonomy: Understand (L2)
Bloom Taxonomy Verb: classify, explain, distinguish
Learning objective: Students classify common routes of contact (skin-to-skin, fluid exchange, casual contact) as transmitting or not transmitting STIs, building an accurate model of how infections do and do not spread.
Layout: A deck of 10 text-only contact scenarios (e.g., "sharing a water bottle," "skin-to-skin genital contact") with three click zones: "Can Transmit an STI," "Cannot Transmit an STI," "Depends on the Specific Infection."
Interactive controls: Click-to-sort each scenario; immediate feedback names the correct category and gives a one-sentence clinical explanation; progress counter; "Reset Deck" button.
Instructional Rationale: Classifying routes of transmission against a factual standard is Understand-level, so a sorting task with explanatory feedback is used, correcting common misconceptions about casual contact directly.
Implementation notes: p5.js. Scenario data stored as objects with text, correct category, and explanation string; no anatomical imagery, text labels only.