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9TH GRADE LESSON PLANS
Lesson 1: They Love Me… They Love Me Not…
This lesson uses a short video showing three different teen relationships and asks students to analyze each couple.
Lesson 2: How Well Do I Communicate with Others
This communication lesson starts with a brief drawing activity completed by students in pairs to assess their own listening and communicating and analyze what strategies are effective or ineffective and why.
Lesson 3: It Wasn’t My Fault
This lesson includes a presentation by rape survivors brought in from a community agency and includes Guides for Teachers in Selecting Guest Speakers as well as advance preparation to connect with the school counselor.
Lesson 4: Sexual Orientation, Behavior & Identity (with PPT)
This lesson introduces the concept of “yellow flag” language (with accompanying Teacher’s Guide) while teasing apart one’s attractions to others, one’s behaviors and one’s self-identity.
Lesson 6: Decisions, Decisions
This lesson has students engage in an activity to practice making deci-sions in rapid succession and then reflect on the factors that impacted their choices.
Lesson 7: Sexual Decision Making
This lesson was adapted and reprinted with permission from the Unitarian Universalist Association’s Our Whole Lives Grades 7-9 curriculum and has students reflect on a handout looking at their readiness to be sexually intimate with another person as a starting activity.
Lesson 8: Planning and Protection- Avoiding and Managing STDs
This lesson uses a classic “don’t pass it along” STD game with pre-marked index cards and three paired discussions to mimic transmission of infections.
Lesson 9: What If…
This lesson starts with a short video about unintended pregnancy and looks at specifics around pregnancy testing.
Lesson 10: STD Smarts (with PPT)
This lesson uses the popular game, Jeopardy, to review key sexual health content related to STDs including testing, symptoms, risk behaviors and accessing treatment.
Lesson 11: Creating Condom Confidence
This lesson has students review the steps to using condoms correctly by the teacher modeling how to use condoms correctly. Then students practice placing a condom on a penis model or banana in pairs using an 11-step process and rating each other about ability to use each step and in the correct order.
