Content Area: Health and Physical Education

 

Index: 2.4B Grade 8 CPI 3

 

Standard: 2.4 - Human Relationships & Sexuality

 

Strand: B - Sexuality

 

Cumulative Progress Indicator:  3 - The student will describe the physical, emotional, and social benefits of sexual abstinence and develop strategies to resist pressures to become sexually active.

 

Grade: 8

 

Sample Activities:

 

·        ABSTINENCE - Students write an essay supporting sexual abstinence as a personal choice. The student must support the position with reasons and statistics.

 

      Variation: Students design a bookmark supporting an abstinence message. The bookmarks can be donated to the school library.

Variation: Students develop a poster or bulletin board display supporting the benefits of abstinence.

 

·        REASONS NOT TO HAVE SEX - Students list all the reasons teens should not have sexual intercourse. Using the listed reasons, students design a personal support system—a list of family, friends, religious leaders, and supportive adults—who will help the student resist having sexual intercourse until he/she is physically and emotionally mature.

Variation: Students list and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of postponing sexual intercourse through high school, through college, and until marriage.