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Senior high school
Career and Life Management (CALM) is
required for graduation with an
Alberta High School Diploma. The course can be taken in either
Grade 10,11 or 12 with the majority of students taking the
course in Grade 11.
Integrating Comprehensive School Health- CALM
See some examples of how to integrate the comprehensive school health model into
your Sexual Health Education program.
Substance Use and Sexual Decision-Making - Lesson One
The aim of this lesson is to help students to: consider the relationship between substance use and sexual decision-making, examine why students choose to use substances before engaging in sexual activity, and understand the consequences of combining alcohol, drugs and sex.
Substance Use and Sexual Decision-Making - Lesson Two
This lesson plan on substance use and sexual decision-making is the second in a series of two. This lesson will help students to learn how to minimize their sexual health risks if they choose to use alcohol and drugs, and learn about the school and community resources available to help with alcohol, drug, or sexual health problems.
Decision-Making
The aim of this lesson is to examine setting sexual limits and values which helps students to maintain congruency between their actions/behaviours and their values.
Personal Values
This lesson will help students explore their own ideas and values about sexuality. Taking time to think about values can help students when the have to make decisions that guide future behaviour.
Relationships - Lesson 1
This lesson encourages students to think about how they develop and maintain healthy relationships and to discuss how to identify expectations and commitments in different types of relationships.
Relationships - Lesson 2
This lesson encourages students to think about the important qualities of intimate relationships by identifying what first attracts people to one another and what helps a relationship grow and change.
Relationships - Lesson 3
This lesson encourages students to consider how relationships progress from the first meeting, through dating and eventually, if a couple chooses sexual activity.
Relationships - Lesson 4
This lesson encourages students to identify some of the signs of an unhealthy relationship, communication skills to help deal with the problems, and when necessary strategies for ending relationships.
Relationships - Lesson 5
This lesson allows students to identify warning signs of being a victim of violence and strategies to deal with abusive relationships.
Examining Abstinence
This lesson focuses on exploring how teens can make healthy and responsible decisions about future sexual activity.
Contraception - Lesson 1
This lesson focuses on exploring the different contraceptive methods.
Contraception - Lesson 2
This lesson encourages students to explore various issues around contraception including personal values and beliefs about contraception, reasons adolescents don't use contraception or use it improperly, and scenarios encouraging proper use of contraception if choosing to be sexually active.
Self Care (BSE/TSE)
This lesson helps students to understand ways of taking care of their bodies using breast self exam and testicular self exam. Students will also
learn about the services health care professionals can provide for them.
STI/HIV - Lesson One
This lesson helps students define and learn about STI/HIV, as well as describes symptoms, effects, treatments, and prevention for common sexually transmitted diseases.
STI/HIV - Lesson Two
This lesson helps students understand how knowing about STI/HIV and STI/HIV
prevention can help them make sexually healthy choices, and provides students with an opportunity to practice skills required to make those choices.
Pregnancy and Parenting
This lesson will ask students to think about the options available to pregnant teens and clarify each choice from a value neutral stance. Students will then be asked to evaluate what is involved when raising a child and the implications for each parent in the future.
Sexual Diversity - Lesson 1
This lesson helps students to examine the impact of homophobia and heterosexism,
and to develop behaviours that respect sexual diversity.
Evaluation Overview - CALM
Use a marking guide reflecting all of the CALM lesson plans and activities found on
the teachingsexualhealth.ca website.
