Curriculum

• Gender role, gender expression, gender identity, and sexual orientation

• Amaze.org: Gender Identity: Gender Roles and Stereotypes

• Youtube.org: Inspiring the Future - Redraw the Balance 

• Knowledge of components of sexual orientation

• Amaze.org: Sexual Orientation: What is Sexual Orientation? 

• Amaze.org: Sexual Orientation: Coming Out LGBTQ+

• Review of internal and external sexual and reproductive systems

• Amaze.org: Puberty: Biological Female Anatomy 

• Amaze.org: Puberty: Biological Male Anatomy

• Review the process of human reproduction by identifying the correct order of the steps involved  with conception.

• Define sexual intercourse

• Amaze.org: Pregnancy & Reproduction Explained

• Facts about STI symptoms

• No need to distribute California Minor Consent Laws card

• Amaze.org: What are STDs? #FactCheck

• Define HIV, AIDS, STI and understand the differences between each one.

• Understand magnitude of HIV infection and AIDS pandemic.

• Describe routes of, and behaviors that lead to, HIV transmission. 

• Amaze.org: STDs & HIV: What is HIV?

• Review of all available birth control methods.

• Impact of correct and consistent use of birth control method and effectiveness at preventing pregnancy.

• Optional Video Resource: Amaze.org: Contraceptives Got Talent

• Symptoms of pregnancy and choices when pregnant. 

• Access medically accurate information about pregnancy options, including prenatal care. 

• Optional Video Resource: Amaze.org: Pregnancy & Reproduction: What is an abortion?

• Optional Video Resource: www.asktxtina.com: Big Status Update

• Optional Video Resource: Youtube.org: Heartbreak, hope and healing: A Young Mother's Adoption Story

• Review mutual consent, unfair manipulation, threats, and aggression.

• Impacts of a sexual assault or abusive relationships and how to report them. 

• Optional Video Resource: Amaze.org: Personal Safety: What is Sexual Assault

• Optional Video Resource: Amaze.org: Intimate Partner Violence

• Demonstrate an understanding of using a decision-making model to determine whether they want to be in a sexual relationship. 

• Demonstrate their understanding of how to apply the SMART decision-making model to real-life situations. 

• Optional Video Resource: Amaze.org: Healthy Relationships: I got a friend - Peer Pressure

• Describe three different types of communication people use.

• Demonstrate how to effectively use assertive communication in relationships.

• Optional Video Resource: Amaze.org: Healthy Relationships- How to be a Good Listener

The 11 lessons and related PowerPoint slides from the curriculum can be inspected online at https://3rs.org/3rs-curriculum/download-3rs/ by selecting the link titled “CA Lesson Plans” and selecting the folder titled "Middle School - Lessons and PPTs".