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 defines sexual orientation and gender identity via a detailed PowerPoint and then students complete a myth vs. fact worksheet individually before comparing responses with a partner.

This lesson explores gender by starting with a PowerPoint presentation of typically stereotypical items or hobbies and asks students to reflect on these stereotypes.

This lesson teaches a decision-making model and helps students use it to think through a potential conflict in the school cafeteria.

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 looks at key criteria that can make students feel safe or unsafe at school, especially those who identify as LGBTQ.

This lesson looks at influences on decision-making by analyzing a scenario and the people who impacted their decision including parents, teachers, friends, media, etc.

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 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 explores the challenges of communicating clearly solely by text using some examples of when messages can be interpreted in different ways.

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.

This lesson uses a short video showing three different teen relationships and asks students to analyze each couple.

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 includes a presentation by rape survivors brought in from a community agency and includes Guides for Teachers in Selecting Guest Speakers as well as advance preparation to connect with the school counselor.

This lesson introduces the concept of “yellow flag” language (with accompanying Teacher’s Guide) while teasing apart one’s attractions to others, one’s behaviors and one’s self-identity.

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 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.