Lesson 1: Friendship First

• Describe guidelines for class discussions that promote a safe, productive learning environment.

• Describe criteria for selecting peers to be friends or potential romantic partners.
• Identify infatuation as a normal phase during which decision-making is impaired.
• List ways to make good choices while getting to know people.

Lesson 2: Relationships and Responsibility

• State that having a healthy, responsible relationship as a couple means avoiding possible physical, emotional, economic, and legal consequences of sex, including pregnancy, HIV, and other STIs.

• Explore how stereotypes and peer influence can impact sexual decision making.
• Describe different ways of communicating caring, love, and respect, without sexual intercourse.
• Explain the importance of making decisions regarding personal sexual limits.
• Explain the importance of communicating personal sexual limits and values in relationships.
• Clarify the benefits of abstaining from sex or ceasing sex if sexually active.
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Lesson 3: Building Healthy Relationships

• Define the terms “love,” “infatuation,” “sex,” “sexuality,” “sexual activity,” “abstinence,” and “sexual intercourse.”

• Describe ways to develop healthy relationships with friends and family members, and healthy dating relationships.
• Talk with parents and/or other trusted adults about relationships and sexual issues.
• Describe the contributions healthy relationships make to the quality of life. (Optional Activity)
• Compare and contrast different ways of communicating caring and love in different relationships. (Optional Activity)
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Lesson 4: The Many Facets of Intimacy

• Discuss why teens sometimes confuse love, sex, and intimacy.

• Discuss characteristics of intimate relationships, both friendships and romantic relationships.
• Identify honesty and safety as key ingredients in a healthy relationship.
• Analyze the impact of sexual intercourse on building intimacy in relationships and the benefits of abstaining from sex.
• Describe ways to develop intimacy in four domains.
• Identify and select things to do to build true intimacy without having sexual intercourse.
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Lesson 5: Let’s Hear the Facts

• List the most prevalent and serious sexually transmitted infections.

• Summarize the symptoms, modes of transmission, consequences, and how to prevent transmission of six sexually transmitted infections: HIV, chlamydia, gonorrhea, genital warts, herpes, and syphilis.
• Identify sexually transmitted infections as a possibility of sex that can be prevented by abstinence.
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Lesson 6:  More About STIs

• Examine answers to questions regarding sexually transmitted infections.
• Summarize facts about sexually transmitted infections.
• Illustrate how sexually transmitted infections spread in a progressive manner.
• Conclude that abstinence and lifetime monogamy are the most effective ways to prevent sexually transmitted infections.
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Lesson 7:  The Stakes Are High

• Recognize teens’ vulnerability to HIV infection.
• Summarize the physical, social, and emotional impacts of HIV infection and AIDS on teens and society.
• Summarize the impact of HIV infection and AIDS on friends, family, and future dreams.
• Identify reputable sources of information.
• Demonstrate how to contact resources appropriately.
• Assess personal perception of risk for HIV infection and other STIs.
• Identify abstinence from sex as the most effective way to prevent infection.
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Lesson 8:  Know the Risks!

• Review the terms “sex,” “sexuality,” “sexual activity,” “abstinence,” and “sexual intercourse.”
• Categorize different behaviors according to level of risk for transmission of HIV and other STIs.
• Establish personal limits for personal behavior.
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Lesson 9:  Examining Influences, Including the Law

• Examine influences that encourage and/or discourage risky behaviors.
• Identify the law as an important influence in making decisions regarding relationships, abstinence, and sex.
• Identify the legal age of consent and consequences of underage sex.
• Discuss the benefits of laws that regulate the age of consent for sex.
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Lesson 10:  When Talking Is Tough

The students will:

• Summarize the benefits of discussing decisions about sex and potential consequences with parents, family members, other trusted adults, peers, sexual partners, and medical professionals.

• Explain why STIs, HIV infection, AIDS, and related subjects are difficult to discuss.

• Demonstrate use of skills for communicating with parents, family members, other trusted adults, peers, sexual partners, and medical professionals.
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Lesson 11:  Know Your Limits and Avoid the Risks

The students will:

• State that the majority of students in ninth and tenth grades are not having sexual intercourse.

• Describe possible legal consequences of sex.

• Identify and predict situations that could result in pregnancy or transmission of HIV or other STIs.

• Identify ways to avoid risky situations and behaviors.

• Demonstrate methods of controlling personal behavior to avoid situations that could result in pregnancy or transmission of HIV or other STIs.
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Lesson 12:  Exerting Positive Influence

The students will:

• Describe reasons different influences affect how people behave and why people follow the law.

• Describe ways to be a positive influence on peers.

• Practice ways to influence peers to choose behaviors that are not risky.
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Lesson 13:  Escape the Risks by Setting Limits and Using Refusal Skills

The students will:

• Identify ways to escape situations that could result in pregnancy or transmission of HIV and other STIs.

• Demonstrate effective limit-setting and refusal skills to escape situations that could result in pregnancy or transmission of HIV and other STIs.
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Lesson 14:  The Cost of Pregnancy and Teen Parenting

The students will:

• Evaluate the economic costs of pregnancy and teen parenting.

• Predict the social and emotional impact pregnancy and teen parenting would have on personal lifestyle.

• Identify adoption as an option for teen parents who decide they are not ready for parenting.

• Identify Safe Delivery as an alternative to infant abandonment for teen parents.

• Conclude that pregnancy can be fully prevented by abstaining from sex.
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Lesson 15:  Reducing the Risks: Condom Use

The students will:

• Review behaviors that are high risk for pregnancy or transmission of infection.

• Review the possible legal consequences of sex and how abstinence can fully prevent pregnancy and STIs.

• Identify ways to reduce the risks for pregnancy and STIs.

• Identify barriers to condom use and reasons people give for not using condoms.

• Suggest ways to reduce the barriers to condom use and refute the reasons for not using condoms.

• Apply steps for correct condom use as a risk reduction strategy.
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Lesson 16:  Reducing the Risks: How to Prevent Pregnancy (Part 1)

The students will:

• List reasons to postpone and/or prevent pregnancy.

• Describe parents’ responsibilities to children born in and out of wedlock.

• Identify current contraceptive methods to reduce risk of pregnancy.
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Lesson 17:  Reducing the Risks: How to Prevent Pregnancy (Part 2)

The students will:

• Identify places to access contraceptive information, products, and services.

• Compare and contrast the pros and cons of current contraceptive methods.

• Identify what method of preventing pregnancy, including abstinence, might work best for individual circumstances now and in the future.
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Lesson 18:  Responding to Pressure

The students will:

• Demonstrate effective use of limit-setting and refusal skills with partners who resist using condoms and other contraceptive methods (abstinence-based).

• Demonstrate effective use of limit-setting and refusal skills with partners pressuring to have sex (abstinence-only).
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Lesson 19:  Testing: Who, Why, and How

The students will:

• List reasons to be tested for pregnancy and STIs, including HIV.

• Identify who should be tested.

• Summarize the advantages of early diagnosis of pregnancy, and early detection and treatment of STIs.

• Summarize the procedures used for testing for pregnancy and STIs.

• Practice communicating with a peer who might need to be tested for pregnancy and STIs.
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Lesson 20:  Looking to the Future

The students will:

• Distinguish between wishing or dreaming and personal goal-setting.

• Describe the steps in goal setting.

• Identify personal goals.

• Practice making a plan to reach personal goals.

• Predict the impact of unintended pregnancy, HIV infection, AIDS, and other STIs on goal achievement.

• Conclude that abstinence from sex and drugs are the most effective ways to avoid unintended pregnancy and infection with HIV or other STIs.
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Lesson 21:  Sharing Our Knowledge and Skills–
Part 1

The students will:

• Decide what information and/or skills are critical to share with others to help them avoid pregnancy, HIV, and sexually transmitted infections.

• Prepare a project to motivate others to be informed about, and protect themselves and their partners from, pregnancy and STIs.
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Lesson 22:  Sharing Our Knowledge and Skills–
Part 2

• Execute projects to motivate others to be informed about abstinence and how to protect themselves and others from pregnancy and STIs.
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