Activities

HPV vaccination

Year 7
Sexual health
Staying safe

Activities for use with students before they receive their HPV vaccine at school. Videos and an activity sheet to explore HPV, how it can be prevented, what happens on vaccination day, and feelings about vaccinations.

Pregnancy and birth

Year 8
Growing bodies
Relationships
Sexual health
Through research, students develop an understanding of the stages of pregnancy and how to keep an unborn child healthy. Students create a poster or movie to promote healthy behaviours to keep the unborn child safe.

RELATE: Respectful relationships program - Stage 2

Year 8
Year 9
Relationships
Sexual health
Sexuality and sexual behaviour
Understanding gender

Students explore gender stereotypes, respectful relationship qualities and non-consensual image sharing in this 8 sequential session program.

Choices and consequences

Year 9
Communication skills
Sexual health
Sexuality and sexual behaviour
Staying safe
Students watch Kaiyai Girl, an interactive DVD about an Aboriginal Girl, Missy, who is faced with many choices and consequences regarding alcohol and other drugs and sexual health.

Health campaigns - sexual health

Year 10
Communication skills
Sexual health
Sexuality and sexual behaviour
Students explore the purpose of health campaigns and identify the components of a successful campaign. In groups, they develop their own campaign with a sexual health theme.

Influence of the media

Year 10
Communication skills
Sexuality and sexual behaviour
Values, rights, culture
Students explore the impact of sexualised imagery on young people’s sexual identities and sexual behaviours through the use of music clips and newspaper articles.

Sexually transmissible infections

Year 10
Sexual health
Sexuality and sexual behaviour
Staying safe
Students investigate the risks, symptoms and methods of transmission of STIs.

Keeping safe in sexual situations

Year 10
Year 9
Relationships
Sexual health
Sexuality and sexual behaviour

Students explore legal, physical, social and emotional safety, and respectful relationships using placemat strategy and video stimulus.

Safer sex - condoms

Year 10
Year 9
Relationships
Sexual health
Sexuality and sexual behaviour

Students use a video stimulus; explore condom use stats; brainstorm what safer sex is, reasons why people use/don't use condoms and the life skills required for condom negotiation

Assessment task: Safer sex quiz questions

Year 10
Year 9
Sexual health
Sexuality and sexual behaviour

Students research and develop quiz questions about safer sex. Teacher combines student's questions to create a class quiz assessment.

Blood-borne virus safety

Year 10
Year 9
Sexual health
Sexuality and sexual behaviour
Staying safe

Students complete a pre-quiz then use a video stimulus and websites to research BBV transmission/prevention and share their findings in creative formats.

Sex and the media - body image

Year 10
Year 9
Sexual health
Values, rights, culture

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