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LESSON 30 Grades 9-12
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Objective
Learner Outcome
There are skills to practice which will lead to a healthful lifestyle.
Appreciate the value of delaying sexual activity.
Comprehensive Health V Family Life Education
Education 'Iopicts)
Values Integration Reasoning: Understanding the advantages of delaying sexual activity.
Respect for Self and Others: Making responsible decisions to abstain.
Self-discipline:
Delaying sexual activity.
Motivating Activity Students will list reasons why young people might get involved in
sexual activity, such as:
• sexual attraction
• societal pressures
• peer pressure
.. pressure from a partner
• family situations
• mistaken beliefs
• boredom
• low self-esteem
• drinking and drugs
• loneliness
• influence of soap operas and other media
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Identification Students will identify those reasons which are personal and those
which are societal.
Effective Communication'
Decision Making
Students will identify one reason and discuss how that problem can
be dealt with in ways other than sexual activity.
Students will decide which reasons might relate to themselves,
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Positive Health Behaviors
Students will appreciate the value of delaying sexual activity.
Students will appreciate the need to be responsible for their own
behavior and for the consequences it may have for themselves and
other people.
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