Sexual Behaviors That Result in Unwanted Pregnancies & STDs, Including HIV

Grade 7-8

HIV, AIDS and Other STDs
Content 

• Consequences of STDs on a person's life

• How STDs are and are not transmitted

• Health risks of different behaviors

• Situations requiring professional health services

• Resources for information and help related to STDs

Skills

• Apply strategies to promote abstinence

• Avoid and escape risky situations:
  - communication
  - refusal
  - identifying trouble

• Plan to stay free of STDs

• Influence peers by modeling positive behaviors
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Grade 9-12

Healthy and Responsible Relationships
Content

• Identify characteristics of healthy, responsible relationships versus unhealthy relationships

• Identify the benefits of abstaining from sex or ceasing sex if sexually active

• Describe how STIs are and are not transmitted

• Rank the health risks of various behaviors

• Discuss the consequences of STIs on a person's life

• Identify situations requiring testing or professional health services

• Identify the laws related to sexual activity

• Identify contraceptive methods that can reduce the likelihood of pregnancy or disease

Skills

• Practice effective communication skills with adults and peers

• Establish personal limits for sexual behavior

• Locate resources for information and help related to STIs

• Explore ways the law and other influences impact sexual behavior

• Practice methods for avoiding or escaping situations that could result in sexual risk taking:
       * limit setting
       * communication
       * refusal

• Examine the economic, social, and emotional costs of pregnancy and teen parenting

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