Rights, Respect, Responsibility

This lesson has students, in teams, try to determine which STD their group was assigned based on clues posted around the room.

This lesson starts by defining affection and having students provide examples of how people can show affection for one another.

This lesson defines assertive, passive and aggressive communication and provides examples of each making connections to communicating about abstaining from sex.

This lesson uses a classic “don’t pass it along” STD game with premarked index cards and three paired discussions to mimic transmission of infections.

This lesson was adapted and reprinted with permission from the Unitarian Universalist Association’s Our Whole Lives Grades 7-9 curriculum and has students reflect on a handout looking at their readiness to be sexually intimate with another person as a starting activity.

This lesson has students engage in an activity to practice making decisions in rapid succession and then reflect on the factors that impacted their choices.

This communication lesson starts with a brief drawing activity completed by students in pairs to assess their own listening and communicating and analyze what strategies are effective or ineffective and why.

This lesson reviews information about decision-making as it relates to preventing STDs by having students complete a worksheet on prevention and transmission.

This lesson provides information about birth control commonly used by teens by breaking it into three categories – long-acting, short-acting and works right now.

This lesson is about the importance of listening and communicating clearly and students rehearse those skills in pairs with a third students observing and providing feedback.