The High School HGD curriculum is taught in two courses, Freshman Focus Health and Health. It is required to complete one of these courses to graduate from PPS.
Reproductive Anatomy
Abstinence
Pathogens and Disease Transmission
Sexually Transmitted Infections- including HIV/AIDS
Contraception
Conception to Birth: Fetal Development
Sexual Abuse- YWCA
Decision Making
Refusal Skills
Communication Skills
Lesson 1: Friendship First
Objectives:
Describe criteria for selecting peers to be friends or potential romantic partners.
Identify infatuation as a normal phase during which decision making is impaired.
List ways to make good choices while getting to know people.
Lesson 2: Relationships & Responsibility
Objectives:
Explore how stereotypes and peer influence can impact sexual decision making.
Describe different ways of communicating caring, love, and respect, without sexual intercourse.
Clarify the benefits of abstaining from sex or ceasing sex if sexually active.
Lesson 3: Building Healthy Relationships
Objectives:
Define the terms love, infatuation, sex, sexuality, sexual activity, abstinence, and sexual intercourse.
Describe ways to develop healthy relationships with friends and family members, and healthy dating relationships.
Talk with parents and/or other trusted adults about relationships and sexual issues.
Lesson 4: The Many Facets of Intimacy
Objectives:
Discuss why teens sometimes confuse love, sex and intimacy.
Discuss characteristics of intimate relationships, both friendships and romantic relationships.
Describe ways to develop intimacy in four domains.
Identify and select things to do to build intimacy without having sexual intercourse.
Lesson 5: Let’s Hear The Facts
Objectives:
List the most prevalent and serious sexually transmitted infections.
Summarize the symptoms, modes of transmission, consequences, and how to prevent transmission of sexually transmitted infections.
Identify sexually transmitted infections as a possibility of sex that can be prevented by abstinence.
Lesson 6: More About STI’s
Objectives:
Illustrate how sexually transmitted infections spread in a progressive manner.
Conclude that abstinence and lifetime monogamy are the most effective ways to prevent sexually transmitted infections.
Lesson 7: The Stakes Are High
Objectives:
Summarize the physical, social, and emotional impacts of HIV infection and AIDS on teens and society.
Assess personal perception of risk for HIV infection and other STI’s.
Lesson 8: Know The Risks
Objectives:
Categorize different behaviors according to level of risk for transmission of HIV and other STI’s.
Establish personal limits for personal behavior.
Lesson 9: Examining Influences, Including The Law
Objectives:
Identify the law as an important influence is making decisions regarding relationships, abstinence, and sex.
Identify the legal age of consent and consequences of underage sex.
Discuss the benefits of laws that regulate the age of consent for sex.
Lesson 14: The Cost of Pregnancy and Teen Parenting
Objectives:
Evaluate the economic costs and the social and emotional impact of pregnancy and teen parenting.
Identify Safe Delivery as an alternative to infant abandonment for teen parents.
Conclude the pregnancy can be fully prevented by abstaining from sex.
Lesson 15: Reducing the Risks: Condom Use
Objectives:
Identify ways to reduce the risks for pregnancy and STI’s.
Identify barriers to condom use and reasons people give for not using condoms, then suggest ways to reduce the barriers.
Apply steps for correct condom use as a risk reduction strategy.
Lesson 16: Reducing the Risks: How to Prevent Pregnancy (Part 1)
Objective:
Identify current contraceptive methods to reduce risk of pregnancy.
Lesson 17: Reducing the Risks: How to Prevent Pregnancy (Part 2)
Objectives:
Compare and contrast the pros and cons of current contraceptive methods.