Sex Education Learning Objectives After studying the sex education lessons students should be able to:
-Explain how to build and maintain healthy family and peer relationships
-Analyze characteristics of healthy relationships
- Summarize the qualities of a healthy dating relationship
- Summarize the importance of setting personal limits to avoid risky sexual behaviors.
- Summarize the importance of talking with parents and other trusted adults about issues related to relationships, growth and development and sexual health
-Justify why abstinence from sex and drugs is the safest, most effective risk avoidance method of protection from HIV, other STIs and pregnancy.
- Analyze the factors that contribute to engaging in risky sexual behaviors.
- Analyze the factors that protect one against engaging in sexual risk behaviors.
- Summarize ways to prevent pregnancy and the sexual transmission of HIV and other common STIs.
- Analyze the effectiveness of perfect use vs typical use of condoms in reducing the risk of pregnancy, HIV and other infection by STIs, including HPV.
- Summarize how common STIs are transmitted.
- Summarize the signs and symptoms of common STIs.
- Summarize the problems associated with asymptomatic STIs and HIV
- Summarize the long and short-term consequences associated with STIs.
- Summarize the importance of proper adherence to contraceptive methods to reduce the risk of pregnancy.
- Describe the increased risk associated with having multiple sexual partners including serial monogomy.
- Analyze situations that could lead to being pressured to have sex.