Grade 11 Healthy Active Living Education Additional Supports ...

Healthy Relationships and Sexuality
Public Profile
Unit #3 Activity #2
Teaching Learning Strategy #3
Catholic Profile
Unit #4 Activity #3
Teaching Learning Strategy N/A
Teacher Resource (Background Information and Optional Activity)
The following is an additional strategy to the one listed in Activity #2, Teaching/Learning
Strategy #3, Public Course Profile. Students should experience this activity before
attempting the scenarios in the course profile. The activity will identify common
obstacles and provide students with additional information to take into consideration in
order to make a wise decision during the scenarios.
Obstacles to Successful Decision Making
Purpose: Students will describe strategies to either postpone sex or make sure sex is
wanted and safe.
Materials: Prevention cards. Please note you will need one set of cards per group of 5-6
students.
Method:
1. Divide students into groups of five or six. It is helpful for the teacher to pre-set the
members of the group if they are mixed gender groups.
2. Hand out the following 8 prevention cards: Want Sex, Get Necessary Information,
Think About Yourself, Talk to Your Partner About Sex, Negotiate Prevention of
HIV/STI and Pregnancy, Go Public, Get Condoms, Praise Partner.
3. Ask students to arrange the cards in a sequence of behaviours they think will help
prevent unplanned or unwanted sex. Give students 10-15 minutes to reach consensus
on the sequence. Remind them that they should be prepared to briefly describe why
each step is important.
4. NOTE: As the activity unfolds, students may find that their discussion includes a
number of confounding issues that interfere with the sequencing activity. These
confounding issues may include falling in love, alcohol and drugs, homophobia,
racism and/or prejudice. Distribute the 3 additional cards (Falling In Love, Alcohol
and Drug Use, Homophobia) to students and ask them to discuss how or if these
issues change their groupÕs sequence.
5. Have groups briefly describe why each step is important.
6. Ask students of explain how the issues (Falling In Love, Alcohol and Drug Use,
Homophobia) affect the process of preventing unplanned or unwanted sex. Reference
the Teacher Resource (Background Information to Prevention Activity Cards) to
assist in facilitating the class discussion.
7. Briefly review sexual health resources in the community through a question answer
format. (This might take place earlier in the activity as the class unfolds.)
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