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Communication: Saying No
Students read about psychology by identifying uncomfortable teenage situations. In this sexual awareness lesson, students read assigned text which discusses the importance of saying "no" when you are in a hostile or uncomfortable...
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Decision Making and Teen Parenthood
Young scholars analyze psychology by completing worksheets in class. For this decision making lesson, students identify the important choices they will need to make as they enter adulthood and discuss appropriate methods to communicating...
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An Ounce of Prevention...
Students discuss current H.I.V. prevention strategies and adapt these strategies to address the spread of H.I.V. in developing countries. They analyze the results of an international AIDS conference called "The Urgent Search for an AIDS...
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Learning to Love
Young scholars discuss the different kinds of love and the characteristics of a healthy relationship. They examine types of behaviors that could make a relationship unhealthy and name components of love. They evaluate their current...
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Relationships, Day 1: Self-Esteem
Students explore self-esteem and create a self-portrait collage. They discuss things they like about themselves, things they are able to do on their own, and reasons people appreciate them. They demonstrate how to give and receive...
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Birth Control: Deciding
Students take part in class discussion and complete handouts dealing with different methods of birth control (emphasis on abstinence)to help students make informed decisions.
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Relationships, Day 3: Families
Students examine roles of family members and why families are important. They view magazine pictures and define family, describe their own families, draw a picture or diagram of their family, and pair pictures of family members to their...
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Puberty, Day 2
Students, in teams, discuss answers to a true or false quiz about puberty and write their best summaries on the board. They debrief how it felt to disagree during discussion and peer pressure in general. They write a letter to a 6 year...
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Family
Students investigate the purpose, needs, and behaviors of a variety of configurations of families. The benefits of good communication skills among family members are emphasized in this lesson.
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Are School Trips Too Risky?
Learners analyze and chart what risks are involved on school field trips. Students devise a study trip to take and dissect at the end of their findings. Learners scale the conditions of what a risk is and we can manage them in the future.