Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Sexual Health - attitudes and practices

Topic Area: Sexual Health – attitudes and practices

Rationale: Students build on previous sexual health knowledge and understanding to identify and evaluate a range of factors relevant to their sexual health and how to minimize harm. Students use communication skills to collect information and relevant ICT skills to present their findings to an audience on sexual health that is relevant to students in real life contexts and situations.

Outcomes: 5.6 - A student analyses attitudes, behaviours and consequences related to health issues affecting young people.

SLA:
• sexual health
– qualities valued in a partner
– appropriately expressing and exploring sexual feelings
– power, gender and risk-taking
– sexual choices and their consequences
– planning and managing sexual health

SLT:
• identify and evaluate safe sexual health practices, including methods of contraception
• analyse how sexual attitudes, behaviours and sexuality are influenced by gender expectations and assumptions

Skills: communication, planning, interacting

Learning experience: (may take more than one lesson)
A guest speaker is coming from either the local sexual health clinic or a GP who is going to talk to the class about sexual health.
Students are in equal groups and assigned one of the following topics by the teacher:
1. Power, gender and risk-taking. Analyse how sexual attitudes, behaviours and sexuality are influenced by gender expectations and assumptions.
2. Sexual choices and their consequences
3. Planning and managing sexual health. Identify and evaluate safe sexual health practices, including methods of contraception

Before the guest speaker arrives, students must create a list of questions to ask the guest speaker on their assigned topic. The information collected by each group must be used to create a power point presentation of at least 8 slides.
The power point must be overlaid with relevant music and presented to the class. It must include an example of how students may be/have been faced with a real life situation relevant to their topic.

Stimulus:
· Guest speaker
. Power point

Discussion points:
· Sexual choices and their consequences
· Planning and managing sexual health
· Safe sex practices
· Methods of contraception
· How to create a power point
· How to overlay a power point with music

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