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Lesson Plan
Healthy Native Youth

Chapter 6: Making Choices

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
A lesson looks closely at risky behavior such as teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases. Middle schoolers use a question box to ask questions anonymously. They role-play what life would be like if they became pregnant then...
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Lesson Plan
Delaware Health and Social Services

My Life. My Plan: Women

For Teachers 7th - Higher Ed Standards
Nationwide, over 40 percent of pregnancies are unintended. A lesson designed for women of childbearing age asks them to consider their goals and provides information about reproductive health. Learners view a PowerPoint presentation and...
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Handout
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

What You Need to Know about Marijuana Use and Pregnancy

For Teachers 7th - 12th Standards
Some people believe that using marijuana during pregnancy is safer than smoking tobacco, but studies show several negative impacts on babies whose mothers used marijuana while they were pregnant. Use a fact sheet to educate learners...
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Lesson Plan
Advocates for Youth

What Does It Take to Be a Good Parent?

For Students 7th - 12th
Are the teenagers in your class ready to become parents? Have them complete a few life-planning activities, including a parental interview, a role-play exercise, and the classic flour sack baby exercise, before allowing them to assess...
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Lesson Plan
Advocates for Youth

What Are My Goals?

For Students 7th - 12th
Empower the teenagers in your class with the knowledge that their future is theirs to control! A set of nine lessons on setting academic, financial, and life goals encourage class members to think about where they'd like to be in ten...
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Lesson Plan
Advocates for Youth

What is Sexuality?

For Students 7th - 12th
Set the record straight with a series of health-related lessons that discuss human sexuality. Over the course of 11 group and individual activities, learners discover biological, emotional, and social facts about sexuality. 
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Delaware Health and Social Services

Set Your Mind, Set Your Goals

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Becoming a woman can be overwhelming for girls. An educational resource assists female learners in setting goals for their reproductive choices, physical health, and emotional and mental well-being.
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Handout
Safe Teens

Teen Game Plan

For Students 7th - 12th
Don't let the teenagers in your class begin their life without a plan. A brief but inclusive booklet takes high schoolers thorough various aspects of their lives, including financial literacy, vaccinations, and sexual health, and lets...
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Lesson Plan
Hastings Prince Edward Public Health

My Life—My Reproductive Health

For Students 6th - 8th
Keep learners informed about their options and rights when it comes to their sexuality. An in-depth lesson plan guides teenagers through a discussion on sexually transmitted diseases, teen pregnancy, and emotional consequences to having...
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Hastings Prince Edward Public Health

My Life—My Relationships

For Students 6th - 8th
How can you tell if your relationship is healthy or unhealthy? When can consent be withdrawn in a sexual encounter? Discuss important aspects of healthy relationships with high schoolers with a lesson plan that includes talk about...
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Handout
Hastings Prince Edward Public Health

My Life My Plan

For Students 6th - 8th
Being a teenager is harder today than it's ever been. Guide high schoolers through the last few years before adulthood with a resource that encourages them to reflect on their lives and passions, and to make a healthy plan going forward.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Essential Questions: Teen Pregnancy

For Students 9th - 12th
A set of eleven essential questions about teen pregnancy prompt your scholars to explain why they feel the way they do about any of these issues. This worksheet can provide a platform to have class discussions. As many of these questions...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Teen Pregnancy

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars consider the implications of teen pregnancy. In this personal health lesson plan, students discuss how mothers prepare for pregnancy physically and financially. Young scholars compare their daily routines to those of young...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Decision Making and Teen Parenthood

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Pupils inspect psychology by completing a worksheet in class. In this sexual health lesson, students discuss the responsibilities and maturity necessary in order to have a child and to also be sexually active. Pupils answer study...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Teen Pregnancy: Investigating Cubic Functions

For Students 7th - 12th
In this teen pregnancy worksheet, students use a scatter plot and cubic functions to solve word problems about teen pregnancy. Students complete 7 problems.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Teen Pregnancy

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students examine the consequences of teen pregnancy. They identify the dangers of physical intimacy during dating and determine that when alcohol is used in a dating relationship, the chance of unintended sexual activity increases. ...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Love Pressure Consequence

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students engage in a lesson plan that investigates the social problem of teen pregnancy and examines the role of peer pressure to being sexually active. They examine statistics to compare data according to different locations. Also...
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Article
Other

Guidelines for Teens: Thinking About Sexuality: Activity

For Students 9th - 10th
As a teen, making considerations about sexual activity can be quite complicated. There are numerous issues to be aware of that have both physical and emotional implications. The article is well written and quite comprehensive.
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Website
Other

National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the home page for the organization formed to reduced the rates of teen pregnancy in our society; there are articles, resources, tips and articles to help all groups involved achieve that objective.
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Website
Other

Wv Appi: Sex Has Consequences: Public Service Announcements

For Students 9th - 10th
Various public service announcements from a contest offered by the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy. You can see the PSAs and find more information about Teen Pregnancy facts.
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Lesson Plan
Orca Book Publishers

Orca Book Publishers: Saving Grace Teaching Guide [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
After initially giving up her baby for adoption, Evie steals her back because she believes the baby is not being properly cared for. When the baby gets sick, Evie must make the difficult decision to get medical help and thus be...
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Handout
Other

Risk of Premature Sexual Activity Among Adolescents

For Students 9th - 10th
This article summarizes the biological, social, and psychological risks associated with early teenage sexual activity.
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Handout
Other

Pregnancy and Prenatal Care

For Students 9th - 10th
This site contains information on the signs of pregnancy, prenatal care objectives, and pregnancy associated discomforts.
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Teachers: From the Unknown to the Informed: A Debate on Abstinence

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Define "abstinence," and explore how abstinence can be influenced by politics, religion, economics and cultures. Debate which is a better way to decrease teen pregnancy: teaching abstinence or providing easier access to contraceptives.