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Abstinence Education Program Curriculum- High School
(From the Why kNOw? Abstinence Education Program)
Students will examine the differences between healthy and unhealthy relationships and receive practical advice on setting dating standards. A lesson on gender similarities and differences is designed to enhance honest communication between the sexes and help each partner understand their role in the goal of saving sex for marriage. Students will be able to identify the steps of sexual progression, the risks of sexually transmitted diseases, and the influence of peer and media pressure. Students will experience the physical changes of pregnancy and fetal development through the Empathy Belly demonstration. Students will discuss the concept of “secondary virginity” and refusal skills.
Daily Lesson Focus/Goals
(From the Why kNOw? Abstinence Education Program)
Students will examine the differences between healthy and unhealthy relationships and receive practical advice on setting dating standards. A lesson on gender similarities and differences is designed to enhance honest communication between the sexes and help each partner understand their role in the goal of saving sex for marriage. Students will be able to identify the steps of sexual progression, the risks of sexually transmitted diseases, and the influence of peer and media pressure. Students will experience the physical changes of pregnancy and fetal development through the Empathy Belly demonstration. Students will discuss the concept of “secondary virginity” and refusal skills.
Daily Lesson Focus/Goals
- Sex Makes Babies
- Students will write personal goals and discuss how pregnancy would affect the achievement of those goals.
- Students will decide, by process of elimination, that abstinence is the only 100% effective method of reducing the risk of unplanned pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases.
- Using the Empathy Belly, students will experience the physiological changes of pregnancy and the stages of fetal development.
- Students will understand that pregnancy requires a level of commitment and support that is only found in a faithful marriage relationship.
- Sexually Transmitted
Diseases
- Students will be taught that premarital and extramarital sexual activity puts them at risk of acquiring an STD, including HIV/AIDS.
- Students will identify some of the most common STDs and understand the symptoms and medical complications of each.
- Students will learn that abstinence from sexual activity is the only way to ensure that you do not acquire an STD.
- Students will dispel the “safe sex” myth and help students decide for themselves if sex outside of marriage is really “safe.”
- Developing Healthy
Relationships
- Students will identify characteristics of real love and false love.
- Students will identify and discuss red flags of unhealthy relationships and green flags of healthy relationships.
- Sexually active students will be challenged to abstain for a period of time and examine the true foundation of their relationships.
- Students will be given a ‘big-picture” life perspective by participating in a human time line.
- Students will learn six keys to healthy relationships.
- Students will be given guidelines for setting standards for healthy relationships.
- Sexual Progression
- Students will compare choices and consequences of an abstinent role model to those of a person who chooses to be sexually active.
- Students will be able to identify benefits of self-respect and self-control.
- Students will be able to define “second virginity.”
- Students will learn to recognize the steps of sexual progression.
- Students will team up with others to discuss and practice refusal skills.
- Students will be given practical guidelines for future (abstinent) dating.
- Students will learn that abstinence requires daily decisions.
- Differences
- Students will gain a greater understanding of the similarities and differences of the genders.
- Students will gain greater skills in communicating with the opposite sex.
- Students will identify each gender’s contribution to the goal of saving sex for marriage.
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