5th Grade Comprehensive Sexual Health Curriculum
adopted by the Board of Education on March 21, 2023
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Per the California Department of Education (CDE)
Elementary School: It is permissible to teach knowledge and skills related to comprehensive sexual health and HIV prevention education in grades kindergarten through grade six (K–6), inclusive. All instruction and materials in grades K–6 must meet the instructional criteria or baseline requirements in EC Section 51933. Content that is required in grades 7–12 may be also be included in an age-appropriate way in earlier grades. (EC sections 51933, 51934[b].)
Grade 5 Teachers:
Grade 5 Teachers:
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LESSON 1
Learning Target: Demonstrate an understanding of expectations during Comprehensive Sexual Health Education lessons using agreements/classroom rules to follow during instruction.
Activities:
Activity: Class Scenario w/ discussion
Activity: Develop Class Ground Rules/Agreements
Student Questions & the Anonymous Question Box
Learning Target: Demonstrate empathy for others with an understanding of gender roles and stereotypes.
Activities:
Video: Gender Roles and Stereotypes
Activity: Boys are... Girls are...
Define Vocabulary
Video: Expressing Myself, My Way
Learning Target: Demonstrate positive health practices within the school and community, including positive and respectful relationships with peers.
Activities:
Activity: "You" Web
Activity: Healthy or Unhealthy Relationship?
Identifying Qualities of Healthy and Unhealthy Relationships
Video: Consent for Kids
Reading: "Consent (for Kids!)" Ch 1 & 2*
Learning Target: Use effective decision-making steps to make thoughtful and deliberate decisions.
Activities:
Direct Instruction: Common Types of Decisions
Direct Instruction: Decision-Making Steps
Video: Decision Making Steps
Choice of Activities:
Brainstorm Bonanza
Group Problem Solving
Clue Me In
Survivor Scenarios
Moral Dilemma
Reading: "Consent (for Kids!)" Ch 4*
Optional Lesson/Activity: How Risky Is It?
Learning Target: Describe the physical, social, and emotional changes of puberty.
Activities:
Activity: Introducing CJ
Activity: Classifying Changes During Puberty
Direct Instruction: Changes of Puberty (physical, emotional, and social)
[Optional] Video: Let’s talk about Bras
Discussion: What's My Plan?
Activity: A Letter to CJ
Learning Target: Describe the structure, function, and major parts of the human reproductive system.
Activities:
Direct Instruction: Reproductive Anatomy, Part 1 (assigned female at birth)
Matching Cards: Reproductive Structure with Description and/or Function
Direct Instruction: Menstrual Cycle
Video: Let's Talk About It: Periods
Direct Instruction: Reproductive Anatomy, Part 2 (assigned male at birth)
Matching Cards: Reproductive Structure with Description and/or Function
Learning Target: Use an understanding of how diseases are spread to identify ways to prevent transmission and stay healthy.
Activities:
Brainstorm: What is a communicable disease?
Video: Germs for Kids
Demonstration & Video: How contagious is a single sneeze?
Activity: Ways to Stay Healthy Poster
Learning Target: Recognize positive characteristics of oneself in order to build confidence and self-esteem.
Activities:
Video: “I’m Good”
Reading & Discussion: “I Am Enough” by Grace Byers (read-aloud version)
Choice of Activities:
"I Am Enough" Poem
Reflection Writing
“I Am Enough” Art Activity
Additional Optional Activities:
T-Shirt Activity
LESSON 10
Learning Target: Demonstrate how to communicate and respect someone’s personal boundaries.
Activities:
Review and discuss “The Protect Yourself Rules”
Protect yourself Rules matching activity
Discussion of what is safe and unsafe touch
Practice Scenarios-group activity
Escape Strategies for inappropriate touching
Video: Protect Yourself Rules - Secrets & Tell discussion
LESSON 11
Learning Target: Demonstrate positive ways to communicate differences of opinion while maintaining relationships.
Activities:
Video: Communicate Assertively
Class discussion & brainstorming about what can be difficult about communicating with others
Discuss 3 ways people communicate (aggressive, passive, and assertive)
Teacher-led scenario of how to respond to others
Read “Consent for Kids” book chapter 3 & discuss
Video: Active Listening
Practice using “I-Messages” situation cards
Optional Video: Kid President is Over It!
Teacher Resources
(not for student use or distribution)Teacher Resources
Notification Letters for Teacher Use
Notification Letters for Teacher Use
Teachers:
Teachers:
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Parent/Guardian Notification Letters for teacher use only
Parent/Guardian Notification Letters for teacher use only
(Note: these are for teacher use only. They will be shared with parents/guardians by the child's classroom teacher.)
(Note: these are for teacher use only. They will be shared with parents/guardians by the child's classroom teacher.)
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