Asitia
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
- 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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