Safe Sex The Only Sex

Strand 3:
Individual and Community Health

Outcome:
5.6 a student analyses attitudes, behaviours and consequences related to health issues affecting young people.


Student Learn About:
> Sexual Health
- sexual choices and their consequences
- planning and managing sexual health


Student Learn To:
- identify and evaluate safe sexual health practices, including methods of contraception


Scope of Task:
Students will interact with picture cards and establish types of sexually transmitted diseases and methods of preventing these infections.


Activity 1:
1. The following images will appear in colour on individual picture cards. On separate cards the names of each disease or preventative measure will be printed.
2. For a class of 20 students, the teacher will rearange students in five groups of four. As a group students will work together to match up the picture card with the appropriate matching text. 3. This activity is a race against time and the other groups. The first group to finish matching the cards with all correct answers wins. When all the groups have finished the correct answers will be reinforced as a class with students giving answers.

PICTURE CARD IMAGES AND TEXT
HERPES
CLAMIDIA
GONORRHEA
SYPHILIS
GENETAL HERPES
SCABIES
SYPHILIS
CONDOM
DENTAL DAM
ABSENCE


Follow Up Question:
List, describe and evaluate three effective measures of preventing STI’s.


Activity 2:
Staying in the same groups students will construct and acronym using the letters STI to inform readers on how to prevent STI’s. For example:
Stop and ask yourself “how many people am I really going to bed with?”
Take yourself and your partner along to the doctor to get a sexual health check up
If it’s not on, it’s not on


Reason For Inclusion:
The above outlined activities have been included not only to educate students about sexually transmitted infections and methods for prevention but also to assist their development of PDHPE skills that can be used across all subject curriculums.
Communication, interaction skills were developed whilst working cooperatively in groups of four for the card game activity. Decision making and problems solving skills were built upon during both activities one and two, where decisions had to be made as to what kind of disease was being portrayed in the image. For the final activity literacy skills were touch on as students created a group acronym.