Eighth graders describe symptoms, effects, treatments, and prevention for chlamydia, HPV, herpes, gonorrhea, Hepatitis B and C, and HIV. They begin by answering provided background questions and get one's feelings about what they think when they hear the term sexually transmitted diseases. They have self-reflection time and a take-home assignment to complete as well.

Concepts

sexually transmitted diseases, safe sex, sexuality

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Additional Tags

sexually transmitted diseases, health

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Instructional Ideas

• Connect the project between social studies and health class

Classroom Considerations

• Be sure that learners can discuss sensitive topics in a mature way before beginning the lesson
• Lesson was published in Canada, but concepts are applicable to classrooms in any country

Pros

• Covers a wide variety of sexually transmitted diseases

Cons

• None