Content Area: Health and Physical Education

 

Index: 2.4B Grade 8 CPI 6

 

Standard: 2.4 - Human Relationships & Sexuality

 

Strand: B - Sexuality

 

Cumulative Progress Indicator:  6 - The student will compare and contrast methods of contraception, risk reduction, and risk elimination and explain how reliability, religious beliefs, age, gender, health history, and cost may influence their use.

 

Grade: 8

 

Sample Activities:

 

·        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.

 

·        RISK CONTINUUM -  Prior to class, prepare four sheets of 8”x 11” construction paper. Label one, “No Risk”, one “Low Risk”, one “Medium Risk” and one “High Risk”. Post the papers on the board to create a continuum. Label large index cards with a wide spectrum of behaviors (e.g., kissing on the lips, deep kissing, shaking hands, attending school with a person with HIV, sharing a soda with a friend, caring for a person with HIV, having unprotected sex, having a sexual partner who injects drugs). Distribute the cards to the class. Students place their cards along the continuum and justify the placement. Clarify any misconceptions and move behavior cards appropriately. Ask students to think about their own behavior now and to quietly think about where they may be in relation to the continuum at the end of five years.