Rights, Respect, Responsibility

By the end of this lesson, students will be able to: 1.Describe correctly, and in order, the steps to using an external condom. [Knowledge] 2.Describe how an internal condom is used. [Knowledge]

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

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

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 involves students putting the steps to using a condom correctly in the correct sequence while in small groups and then the teacher demonstrating correct condom use based on their responses.

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

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