Rights, Respect, Responsibility

The overall purpose of this lesson is to show students that they are not limited to what they can and cannot do based on their gender.

Utilizing the “Teacher’s Guide: Changes of Puberty,” teachers will talk to the students about puberty and how it has to do with all the ways our bodies change to prepare us for becoming adults.

This lesson teaches about the characteristics and importance of healthy relationships with family, friends, peers, or partners, and discuss the impact of positive and negative influences when it comes to relationships.

Teachers will demonstrate effective ways in which students could handle when they or someone they know is being teased, harassed, or bullied, and discuss different skills to take action.

In this lesson, teachers will describe how puberty prepares human bodies for the potential to reproduce as well as the process of human reproduction with the aid of a PowerPoint presentation.

This lesson defines sexual orientation.

This lesson involves students explaining to a hypothetical alien what a “boy” and “girl” is in the US using commonly held stereotypes about gender.

This lesson starts by defining and then providing examples of personal boundaries.

This lesson reviews the anatomy of a person assigned female at birth via a worksheet completed in small groups.

This lesson reviews the anatomy of a person assigned male at birth via a worksheet completed in small groups.

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

This lesson is reprinted from Common Sense Media and involves students looking at online safety among social networking, gaming and texting/video chatting.

This lesson has students in pairs review a hypothetical relationship and determine if they believe it’s healthy or unhealthy and then post it under the corresponding sign.

This lesson starts with a trigger warning and a reminder about ground rules before starting with a video clip reviewing the key facts about sexual assault and abuse.

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

The lesson defines gender, biological sex, differences of sexual development, cisgender, transgender and gender identity and then students brainstorm gender scripts for people assigned male at birth and people assigned female at birth.

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.