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Our classroom education at the middle and high school level consists of five 45-minute lessons that can be accommodated to meet the needs of schools with any type of scheduling, including block schedules.
The fifth grade program consists of one 45-minute lesson in which the boys and girls are separated the entire class period in order to reduce embarrassment and encourage feedback, communication, and concerns or questions.
Please see below to see a more detailed outline of the topics included at each grade level:
5th Grade Topics
- Boys and Girls are separated to allow a more open, comfortable environment for instruction and discussion
- Puberty and the changes that come with this stage of life
- Hormones and how they affect our bodies
- Basic anatomy
- Personal hygiene
6th Grade Topics
- Anatomy and development of reproductive system
- Emotional needs, maturity, immediate gratification and decision-making by goal setting.
- Love, infatuation, setting limits and sexual abuse
- Physical, emotional, mental and social consequences of sexual involvement, including basic STD information (definition, transmission, symptoms and prevention)
- Social maturity, peer pressure, self-esteem and effect of media
7th Grade Topics
- Emotional & mental maturity and mature decision-making builds positive relationships
- Respect for yourself & others and positive dating attitudes
- Possible consequences of premarital sex, STD information (more detailed - transmission, symptoms, results, prevention) and setting limits
- Pregnancy from conception to delivery, clearing-up misinformation regarding pregnancy and sexual abuse
- Peer pressure, self-esteem and media influences
8th Grade Topics
- Mature/immature behavior, handling pressure, consequences of sexual involvement, benefits for waiting until marriage and abuse
- Healthy progression of a relationship including the definition/identification of commitment, setting limits and qualities in a marriage partner
- Teen pregnancy, parenting and secondary abstinence
- STD review of facts, long-term effects of STDs and the reality of "safe sex"
- Contrasting possible negative effects of premarital sexual involvement with positive effects of sex within marriage, positive self-esteem and resisting pressures (peer & media)
- **New for 2011/12** Ten Signs of Relationship Abuse
High School Topics
- Whole-person consequences of premarital sexual activity, sexual pressures, an “Abstinence Plan” and secondary abstinence
- STD PowerPoint presentation and dating dilemmas
- Freedom that abstinence brings, love and infatuation and the compatibility game where students can determine what qualities are most important in a mate.
- Self-esteem, commitment in relationships and panel of peers giving their own stories
- Healthy communication in relationships and effects of sexual activity on personal goals
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