Does this site seem to have reliable/accurate information? What do you base that on? You need to find information about preventing pregnancy.Sex Ed Sleuth Assignment C: “Planned Parenthood” One of them is Planned Parenthood’s web site. This lesson plan contains an in-class group assignment for students to look at web sites where young people can find accurate sex ed info.
You will need to determine for yourself how much and how often you can do this in your own school and classroom, and should make adjustments accordingly. This is intended to make the curriculum inclusive of all genders and gender identities. You may notice language throughout the curriculum that seems less familiar - using the pronoun “they” instead of “her” or “him,” using gender neutral names in scenarios and role-plays and referring to “someone with a vulva” vs. Like all other lessons in this curriculum, it comes at the top with “a note about language” advising the instructor that the curriculum authors chose their language carefully to be gender-neutral and inclusive to people who don’t identify with their biological sex. Say, “Other behaviors include: oral sex, which is contact between one person’s mouth and another person’s genitals anal sex, which is when a person’s penis goes inside a person’s anus and vaginal sex, which is when a person’s penis goes inside a person’s vagina.” Say, “One behavior that people your age should wait to do together until they are older is ‘sexual intercourse.’ How many people have heard this term before? What have you heard it means?” Have a few students respond, validating what is correct. This lesson plan deals with relationships and while it says students should wait until they are older to have sex, it tells the instructor to describe different types of sex. Quotations from the curriculum are in this font. Excerpts from lesson plans for grades 6 through 12 are below. NewBostonPost examined lesson plans from the curriculum late last week.
In Worcester, school officials are seeking to use the curriculum in grades 7 through 9, though some supporters have called for using the full kindergarten-through-12th-grade version. The curriculum, called Rights, Respect, Responsibility, is published by Advocates for Youth. The Worcester School Committee, which sets policy for the public schools in the second largest city in Massachusetts, is set to decide on whether to adopt the curriculum Thursday, May 6. A sex education curriculum that has divided parents and school committee members in Worcester is expected to go to a vote later this week.