Integrating Comprehensive School Health - Grade 9
See some examples of how to integrate the comprehensive school health model into your Sexual Health Education program
Junior (7-9): Sexual Development Quick Lesson
This lesson plan provides teachers with a quick and easy approach to puberty for Junior High. It may be used as a review for students who investigated puberty at the elementary level or as a starting point for students who have not yet covered the topic. Teachers may want to supplement this lesson with some of the more comprehensive plans available on the website.
Junior (7-9): Le développement sexuel leçon rapide
Le présent plan de leçon vise à fournir au personnel enseignant une méthode simple et rapide d'aborder la puberté au cycle intermédiaire. Il peut servir de révision aux élèves qui ont étudié la puberté au palier élémentaire ou comme point de départ aux élèves qui n'ont pas encore étudié ce sujet.
Coping With Development - Lesson 1
This lesson focuses on evaluating personal feelings about puberty change, examining the impact of negative self-esteem, and identifying strategies to cope with negative feelings about physical, emotional, sexual and social development.
Coping With Development - Lesson 2
The second lesson in this series focuses on identifying
and applying
healthy coping strategies when experiencing different rates of physical, emotional, sexual and social development.
Sexual Assault- Lesson 1
This lesson focuses on defining sexual assault, and examining misunderstandings and attitudes about sexual assault.
Safer Sex - Lesson 1
This lesson focuses on identifying the consequences of sexual involvement and various "safer" sex practices and helps students to identify (and practice) passive, aggressive and assertive communication/skills.
Safer Sex - Lesson 2
The second lesson plan addressing "safer sex practices gives students the opportunity to discuss the importance of condom use and the skills on how to raise the topic of protection with a partner.
Pregnancy and Parenting
The first step towards a pregnancy should be making the decision to have a child. The decision-making process will include an assessment of parenting skills, understanding the day-to-day responsibilities of raising a child, financial burdens and support from family and friends. The aim of this lesson is to highlight these factors and impress upon teens the dramatic changes a pregnancy and birth would bring to their lives.
Reducing Sexual Risk – Lesson 1
This lesson focuses on a common belief of teens: "It couldn't happen to me!" The activities in this lesson identify factors that can lead to sexual risk as well as strategies teens can use to avoid the risks.
Reducing Sexual Risk – Lesson 2
Continuing with the theme of sexual risk this lesson explores how alcohol and substance use affect sexual decision making. Students will explore factors that put them at risk forsexual assault and identify strategies to avoid risk.
Evaluation Overview - Grade Nine
Use a marking guide reflecting all of the grade nine lesson
plans and activities found on the website.
