Sex Education

Materials Used: Townsley, D., Hughes, R., & Crooks, C. (2016). The Fourth R: Healthy Relationships, Safe Choices, Connected Youth. London, ON: The University of Western Ontario.

1 – Preparing for STI Team Challenge

  • For the rest of this lesson and for the next class’s lesson, the focus will be on having students understand what should be taken into consideration when thinking about becoming sexually active.
  • STI’s what everyone should know 3.1 H
  • With a partner, you will be competing against another team. You have 10 minutes to prepare by reviewing the information.
  •  In the team challenge, there will be four topic areas which include, STI description, symptoms, and treatment and prevention.

2 – STI Team Challenge

  • Pair up groups so that each team is now comprised of four people.
  • Each group will have one deck of cards and a STI’s Team Challenge Q and A 3.2 H booklet.
  •  When it’s your turn, draw a card. The other team will look to the question booklet and ask the related question. The team that gets the answer right, will get the points listed after the question and the card will be removed from the deck. If they get it wrong, the card goes to the bottom of the deck. Whether the answer is right or wrong, it will be the next team’s turn. Continue until the entire deck has been used or until the time is up.

 3 – Sex in a Test Tube

Each student receives a test tube with water or a water-appearing liquid in it. Pour all your fluid into your partners test tube and then pour half back. Make as many swaps as you would like. Keep track of how many swaps you make.  Gender should not be taken into consideration.  You may make as many swaps as you think you will have sexual partners in your life or you may make as many swaps as you think the average person would make. Sit down when you are done. Your teacher will test each test tube for an infection.

4 – Discussion Questions

About the swap….

  1. Could you tell who was safe to trade with by looking at them?
  2. How many of you who were infected did not trade with the first infected person?
  3. Of those who were not infected, how many trades did you make?
  4. Was your chance of being infected related to how many trades you made?
  5. Do you think people are always honest about the number of partners they have had?

About the bigger picture …

6. If two people can’t talk about the possible consequences of having sex together, they are not ready for the level of involvement. Agree or Disagree?

7. What everyday kinds of things do you choose not to do, although you have the urge to do it, because the consequences aren’t worth it?             (sleeping in, eating 5 chocolate bars, punching your brother in the face, exercising, yelling at your mom, smashing your computer)

8. How does having sex affect a person in ways that aren’t physical?

9. What boundaries do you need to make around sex to ensure you are healthy emotionally, physically, socially and spiritually?

4 – Personal Health and Wellness Inquiry

With regards to sexual health, how do you plan to be

emotionally and physically healthy?

The purpose of your Personal Health and Wellness Inquiry is to create a culminating health and wellness plan. Your plan is created and built by you, based on your own personal inquiry into a number of important questions about your health and wellness.  It is a journey of learning more about yourself, exploring a variety of valuable topics, and understanding how they relate to you. You will use each lesson’s topic as a springboard to the begin your personal inquiry. It is expected that you will refine and improve your responses, as you gain more knowledge and understanding, until the final product is completed in grade 10. A draft will be submitted at the end of each of the three units.

Steps

  1. Open your Office 365 Word document titled My Personal Health and Wellness 
  2. Create a Heading – Unit 3 Lesson #3 – With Regards to Sexual Health, How Do you Plan to be Emotionally and Physically Healthy?
  3. Using information provided in this unit, personal reflection, and additional research, answer the question above to the best of your ability in complete sentences. Please feel free to use real life examples whenever applicable.

Health Education Rubric