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ready. Pass out My Risks (Worksheet 1.2). Ask students to
choose a number from 1 to 12 and write it at the top of their
worksheet. This will be their number for both parts of the
activity.
3. Explain that for purposes of this activity we will make believe
that everyone in the class is having sex once a month, although
we know that a large percentage of young people their age are
not having sex.
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4. Have a student draw a square out of the container and read the
number aloud. Write the number beside the first month on the
board (which should be the current month). Ask all students
who have put that number on their worksheet to stand. When
students are standing, tell class that this is how many pregnancies
there would be at the end of the first month of unprotected
sex. Assure students that you know boys don't get pregnant but
they do share equal responsibility in a pregnancy.
5. Ask any of the students standing to either "pass the hat" or
write the numbers on the board.
6. Ask another student to draw a number. Write that number beside
the second month and ask students with this number to
stand. These students would be pregnant at the end of the second
month. Continue drawing numbers until all the numbers
are gone or all students are standing, whichever comes first.
Tell students that they are all pregnant! Remind them that this is
based on having sex once a month.
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7. Have students sit down. Ask what would happen if, instead of
having unprotected sex once a month, they had it twice a month.
(All the students would be pregnant in six months instead of
one year.) Then have students calculate what would happen if
they had unprotected sex once a week. (All the students would
be pregnant in three months.)
8. Remind students that the 1 in 12 chance is random. It doesn't
mean getting pregnant the twelfth time a couple has unprotected
sex. It can happen the first time.
9. Have students fill out Part A of My Risks (Worksheet 1.2).
Allow five minutes to complete the worksheet.
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