Safer Choices

Six lessons on the following topics

• Increase knowledge of HIV and other STD

• Promote more positive attitudes about choosing not to have sex and using condoms if having sex

• Increase students’ belief in their ability to refuse sexual intercourse or unprotected sexual intercourse, use a condom, and communicate about safer sexual practices

• Decrease perceived barriers to condom use

• Increase awareness of sexual coercion and acquaintance rape

• Align students’ perceptions of risk for HIV and other STD based on their risk behavior

National Health Education Performance Indicators
for Grades 9-12

Component 2- Community/Environmental Health

• Discuss your relationship to and responsibility in the community, including enhancing personal health

• Distinguish agencies that can come to the aid of individuals in need

Component 3- Disease and Disorders

• Review the various pathogens and the functions of the immune system

• Distinguish between effective techniques to avoid spreading HIV and AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases including abstinence and effective, consistent condom use

Component 4- Family/Social Life

• Discover how responsible sexual behaviors can impact lives positively

• Explore the information on STD’s, HIV, and AIDS, the prevention, the methods of transmission and the progression of the diseases

• Demonstrate refusal, negotiation and collaboration skills to enhance health and avoid or reduce health risks

• Discuss what choices an individual has in preventing pregnancy and reducing the risk of STD’s and HIV (ex. Abstinence and effective condom use)