Nu-CULTURE

Cultivating Urban Leaders Through Unique Relationship Education

Re-) Introduction to Healthy Futures, Keys to Success

Session 7.1

Session Overview:

  1. (Re-) Introduce Healthy Futures.
  2. (Re-) Introduce “The Choices You Make NOW Will Affect You LATER” slogan and incentive.
  3. Establish and post the Group Rights and Responsibilities.
  4. Explain and pass out the question cards.
  5. Use That’s Me! to actively engage participants and build excitement for the program.
  6. Use the Keys to Success activity to discuss challenges people face on the path to achieving goals and dreams.
  7. Use the Dream Big handout to help participants identify their goals and dreams, steps they need to take to achieve their goals and dreams, people who can support them along the way, potential obstacles, and how they will overcome obstacles.
  8. Use the Unlocking the Keys to Success activity to discuss ways participants will overcome challenges and achieve their goals and dreams.
  9. Use the Keys to Success scenarios to demonstrate how decisions can positively or negatively affect someone’s ability to achieve their goals and dreams.
  10. Wrap up session.
  11. Explain and distribute Parent Connection Form Session 7.1: Keys to Success.

Learning Objectives:

  • Participants will understand the ground rules that promote a safe and comfortable learning environment.
  • Participants will evaluate their dreams in life and think practically about how to achieve them.
  • Participants will understand that the choices they make can have positive or negative consequences.
  • Participants will be invited to actively participate in class, which will result in positive consequences.

Materials Needed:

  • Computer, projector, and speakers
  • Jar of Now and Later Candy
  • Three key and lock sets
  • Group Rights and Responsibilities Cards (7.1.3)
  • Keys to Success Scenarios PowerPoint (7.1.9)
  • Handouts:
    • Dream Big (Handout 7.1.7)
    • Parent Connection Form Session 7.1: Keys to Success
  • Question cards
  • Question bag

Classroom Planning:

  • Review Session 7.1 curriculum.
  • Review the instructions for establishing Group Rights and Responsibilities.
  • Make copies of handouts.
  • Gather the question cards and question bag.

National Standards:

  • PD.8.DM.1 Demonstrate the use of a decision-making model and evaluate possible outcomes of decisions adolescents might make.
  • HR.8.CC.1 Compare and contrast the characteristics of healthy and unhealthy relationships.
  • HR.8.IC.1 Demonstrate communication skills that foster healthy relationships.
  • HR.8.IC.2 Demonstrate effective ways to communicate personal boundaries and show respect for the boundaries of others.
  • HR.8.INF.1 Analyze the ways in which friends, family, media, society and culture can influence relationships.
  • HR.8.SM.1 Establish the criteria for evaluating the health ofa relationship.
  • ID.8.IC.1 Communicate respectfully with and about people of all gender identities, gender expressions, and sexual orientation.

Activity 7.1.1
(Re-) Introduction to Healthy Futures

Activity 7.1.2
Healthy Futures Slogan and Incentives

Activity 7.1.3
Group Rights and Responsibilities

Activity 7.1.4
Question Cards

Activity 7.1.5
That’s Me!

Activity 7.1.6
Keys to Success

Activity 7.1.7
Dream Big

Activity 7.1.8
Unlocking the Keys to Success

Activity 7.1.9
Keys to Success Scenarios

Activity 7.1.10
Conclusion and Wrap Up

Activity 7.1.11
Parent Connection Forms

Basic Human Needs, Levels of Friendship

Session 7.2

Session Overview:

  1.  Review Session 7.1.
  2.  Use the Raft Activity to help participants identify physical human needs.
  3.  Discuss the physical and emotional needs humans require to thrive.
  4. Use the Basic Human Needs Pyramid handout to increase participants’ understanding of basic human needs and identify the people in their life who meet those needs.
  5. Use the Levels of Friendship activity to help participants identify different levels of friendship and the significant aspects of different types of friendship including boundaries, trust, respect, and communication.
  6.  Apply the different levels of friendship to online safety.
  7.  Use the friendship scenarios to help participants recognize the importance of friendships and how   they have the power to affect your future.
  8.  Wrap Up Session.
  9.  Distribute Parent Connection Form Session 7.2: Basic Human Needs, Levels of Friendship.

Learning Objectives:

  • Participants will identify physical and emotional needs and learn healthy ways to meet these needs.
  • Participants will identify individuals within their support system who meet these physical and emotional needs.
  • Participants will identify the different levels of friendship and the significant aspects of friendships including boundaries, trust, respect, and communication.
  • Participants will apply the different levels of friendship to online safety.
  • Participants will recognize the importance of friendships and how they have the power to affect your future.

Materials Needed:

  • Computer, projector, and speakers
  • Jar of Now and Later candy
  • Levels of Friendship Scenario Cards (7.2.5)
  • Friendship Scenarios PowerPoint (7.2.7)
  • Handouts:
    • Stranded! (Handout 7.2.2)
    • Basic Human Needs Pyramid (Handout 7.2.4)
    • Parent Connection Form Session 7.2: Basic Human Needs and Levels of Friendship
  • Question cards
  • Question bag

Classroom Planning:

  • Review Session 7.2 curriculum.
  • Make copies of handouts.
  • Gather the question cards and question bag.

National Standards:

  • PD.8.DM.1 Demonstrate the use of a decision-making model and evaluate possible outcomes of decisions adolescents might make.
  • HR.8.CC.1 Compare and contrast the characteristics of healthy and unhealthy relationships.
  • HR.8.GS.1 Develop a plan to stay safe when using social media.
  • HR.8.IC.1 Demonstrate communication skills that foster healthy relationships.
  • HR.8.INF.1 Analyze the ways in which friends, family, media, society and culture can influence relationships.
  • HR.8.SM.1 Explain the criteria for evaluating the health of a relationship.
  • ID.8.IC.1 Communicate respectfully with and about people of all gender identities, gender expressions, and sexual orientation.

Activity 7.2.1
Review Session 7.1

Activity 7.2.2
Stranded!

Activity 7.2.3
Physical and Emotional Needs

Activity 7.2.4
Basic Human Needs Pyramid

Activity 7.2.5
Levels of Friendship

Activity 7.2.6
Online Safety

Activity 7.2.7
Friendship Scenarios

Activity 7.2.8
Conclusion and Wrap Up

Puberty and Pregnancy

Session 7.3

Session Overview:

  1. Review Session 7.2.
  2. Review the process of puberty and pregnancy.
  3. Use the Puberty and Pregnancy Review game to help participants understand the physical and emotional changes that occur during puberty, the function of male/female reproductive systems, and the process of pregnancy.
  4. Wrap up session.
  5. Distribute Parent Connection Form Session 7.3: Puberty and Pregnancy

Learning Objectives:

  • Participants will recognize the physical and emotional changes that occur during puberty and the benefits of remaining abstinent.
  • Participants will identify the function of structures of the reproductive systems in males and females.
  • Participants will summarize the process of pregnancy.

Materials Needed:

  • Computer, projector, and speakers
  • Jar of Now and Later candy
  • Puberty and Pregnancy Review PowerPoint (7.3.2)
  • Wheel with Puberty and Pregnancy Review Game Cards (7.3.3)
  • Handouts:
    • Parent Connection Form Session 7.3:Puberty and Pregnancy
  • Question cards
  • Question bag

Classroom Planning:

  • Review Session 7.3 curriculum.
  • Review Puberty and Pregnancy PPT and Puberty and Pregnancy Review Game.
  • Make copies of handouts.
  • Set up game wheel with the Puberty and Pregnancy Review Game Cards.
  • Gather the question cards and question bag.

National Standards:

  • AP.8.CC.1 Describe male and female sexual and reproductive systems including body parts and their functions.
  • AP.8.AI.1 Identify accurate and credible sources of information about sexual health.
  • HR.8.INF.1 Analyze the ways in which friends, family, media, society and culture can influence relationships.
  • HR.8.IC.1 Demonstrate communication skills that foster healthy relationships.
  • ID.8.IC.1 Communicate respectfully with and about people of all gender identities, gender expressions, and sexual orientation.
  • PD.8.CC.1 Describe the physical, social, cognitive, and emotional changes of adolescence.
  • PD.8.AI.1 Identify medically accurate sources of information about puberty, adolescent development, and sexuality.
  • PD.8.DM.1 Demonstrate the use of a decision-making model and evaluate possible outcomes of decisions adolescents might make.
  • PR.8.CC.1 Define sexual intercourse and its relationship to human reproduction.

Activity 7.3.1
Review Session 7.2

Activity 7.3.2
Puberty and Pregnancy

Activity 7.3.3
Battle of the Sexes Review Game

Activity 7.3.4
Conclusion and Wrap Up

Stress, Positive Character Traits, Peer Pressure

Session 7.4

Session Overview:

  1. Review Session 7.1-7.3.
  2. Review physical and emotional needs.
  3. Define stress and stressors and discuss healthy ways to handle stress.
  4. Watch the I Won’t Break video and discuss stress as it relates to emotional needs.
  5. Have participants identify stress in their own lives and healthy ways to handle it.
  6. Discuss positive personal character traits and connect the traits to managing and reducing stress.
  7. Discuss a scenario where one unhealthy choice leads to a series of unhealthy choices.
  8. Define peer pressure and build participants’ refusal skills self-efficacy.
  9. Utilize scenarios to increase participants’ understanding of peer pressure and refusal skills. Introduce and explain the three steps to follow when saying “no”.
  10. Answer all participant questions related to curriculum covered in sessions 7.1-7.3.
  11. Wrap up session.
  12. Distribute Parent Connection Form Session 7.4: Stress, Positive Character Traits, Peer Pressure.

Learning Objectives:

  • Participants will identify stress factors in their own life.
  • Participants will discuss the emotions related to stress and healthy ways to meet those emotional needs.
  • Participants will identify positive personal character traits that will help promote a well-adjusted, healthy individual who can choose to avoid risky behaviors, and who aims to develop healthy friendships.
  • Participants will identify ways to make good choices.
  • Participants will learn skills to avoid peer pressure.
  • Participants will identify and practice refusal skills by developing an ending to hypothetical conversations.
  • Participants will demonstrate mastery of refusal skills by role-playing.

Materials Needed:

  • Computer, projector, speakers
  • Jar of Now and Later candy
  • I Won’t Break Video (7.4.4)
  • Teen Interviews on Stress Video (7.4.6)
  • Stress, Emotional Needs and Positive Personal Character Traits PowerPoint  (7.4.5, 7.4.6)
  • Pregnancy Audio – Kim and Anna (7.5.5)
  • Pregnancy Audio – Kim and TJ (7.5.5)
  • Handouts:
    • Refusal Scenarios (Handout 7.4.9)
    • Parent Connection Form Session 7.4: Stress, Positive Character Traits, Peer Pressure
  • Question cards
  • Question bag

Classroom Planning:

  • Review Session 7.4 curriculum.
  • Make copies of handouts.
  • Gather question cards and the question bag.

National Standards:

  • PD.8.DM.1 Demonstrate the use of a decision-making model and evaluate possible outcomes of decisions adolescents might make.
  • HR.8.CC.1 Compare and contrast the characteristics of healthy and unhealthy relationships.
  • HR.8.IC.1 Demonstrate communication skills that foster healthy relationships.
  • HR.8.IC.2 Demonstrate effective ways to communicate personal boundaries and show respect for the boundaries of others.
  • HR.8.INF.1 Analyze the ways in which friends, family, media, society and culture can influence relationships.
  • HR.8.SM.1 Explain the criteria for evaluating the health of a relationship.
  • ID.8.IC.1 Communicate respectfully with and about people of all gender identities, gender expressions, and sexual orientation.

Activity 7.4.1
Review Sessions 7.1-7.3

Activity 7.4.2
Review Physical and Emotional Needs

Activity 7.4.3
Defining Stress

Activity 7.4.4
I Won’t Break Video

Activity 7.4.5
Stress and Emotional Needs

Activity 7.4.6
Positive Personal Character Traits

Activity 7.4.7
Spiraling Out of Control

Activity 7.4.8
Peer Pressure and Refusal Skills

Activity 7.4.9
Refusal Scenarios

Activity 7.4.10
Questions and Answers

Activity 7.4.11
Conclusion and Wrap Up

Consequences of Sexual Activity – Pregnancy and Emotional Risks

Session 7.5

Session Overview:

  1. Review Session 7.4.
  2. Review puberty and pregnancy.
  3. Discuss the importance of abstinence as it relates to pregnancy prevention, STI prevention, and emotional heartache.
  4. Discuss the emotional risks involved with sexual activity.
  5. Explain the purpose of the pregnancy scenario is to illustrate the concerns teen parents face.
  6. Use the pregnancy scenario to lead a discussion of the challenges faced related to teen pregnancy.
  7. Wrap up session.
  8. Distribute Parent Connection Form Session 7.5: Consequences of Sexual Activity – Pregnancy and Emotional Risks.

Learning Objectives:

  • Participants will understand the physical, mental, and emotional repercussions of sex and pregnancy.
  • Participants will recognize the importance of abstinence and why it is the healthiest choice for 7th graders.

Materials Needed:

  • Computer, projector, speakers
  • Jar of Now and Later candy
  • Boundaries in Relationships PowerPoint (7.5.3)
  • Handouts
    • Boundaries in Relationships (Handout 7.5.3)
    • Resource Brochure
    • Parent Connection Form Session 7.5: Consequences of Sexual Activity – Pregnancy and Emotional Risks
  • Sports Ball (Soccer Ball Size)
  • Paper hearts (2)
  • Question cards
  • Question bag

Classroom Planning:

  • Review Session 7.5 curriculum.
  • Make copies of handouts.
  • Gather question cards and the question bag.

National Standards:

  • AP.8.CC.1 Describe male and female sexual and reproductive systems including body parts and their functions.
  • AP.8.AI.1 Identify accurate and credible sources of information about sexual health.
  • HR.8.CC.1 Compare and contrast the characteristics of healthy and unhealthy relationships.
  • HR.8.CC.3 Analyze the similarities and difference between friendships and romantic relationships.
  • HR.8.IC.1 Demonstrate communication skills that foster healthy relationships.
  • HR.8.IC.2 Demonstrate effective ways to communicate personal boundaries and show respect for the boundaries of others.
  • HR.8.INF.1 Analyze the ways in which friends, family, media, society and culture can influence relationships.
  • ID.8.IC.1 Communicate respectfully with and about people of all gender identities, gender expressions, and sexual orientation.
  • PD.8.AI.1 Identify medically accurate sources of information about sexuality, pregnancy prevention, and reproductive health care.
  • PD.8.DM.1 Demonstrate the use of a decision-making model and evaluate possible outcomes of decisions adolescents might make, including various sexual health decisions.
  • PR.8.CC.1 Define sexual intercourse and its relationship to human reproduction.
  • PR.8.CC.2 Define sexual abstinence as it relates to pregnancy prevention.
  • PR.8.IC.1 Demonstrate the use of effective communication skills to support one’s decision to abstain from sexual behaviors and foster healthy relationships.
  • PR.8.IC.2 Demonstrate the use of effective communication and negotiation skills about the use of contraception including abstinence and condoms.
  • PR.8.INF.1 Examine how alcohol and other substances, friends, family, media, society and culture influence decisions about engaging in sexual behaviors.

Activity 7.5.1
Review Session 7.4

Activity 7.5.2
Puberty and Pregnancy Review

Activity 7.5.3
Rules, Limits, and Boundaries

Activity 7.5.4
Emotional Risk and Sexual Activity

Activity 7.5.5
Pregnancy Scenario

Activity 7.5.6
Conclusion and Wrap Up

Consequences of Sexual Activity – STIs

Session 7.6

Session Overview:

  1. Review Session 7.5.
  2. Use the star activity to illustrate how quickly STIs can spread.
  3. Discuss the different types of STIs and the importance of condoms in reducing the risk of spreading STIs.
  4. Use group presentations to increase participant knowledge of the different types of STIs.
  5. Wrap up session.
  6. Distribute Parent Connection Form Session 7.6: Consequences of Sexual Activity – STIs.

Learning Objectives:

  • Participants will discuss the definitions, signs, symptoms, prevention, and treatment of STIs.
  • Participants will distinguish between viral and bacterial STIs.
  • Participants will understand the role abstinence and condoms play in STI prevention.

Materials Needed:

  • Computer, projector, speakers
  • Jar of Now and Later candy
  • STIs PowerPoint (7.6.3)
  • Handouts
    • Facts about STIs (Handout 7.6.4)
    • Resource Brochure
    • Parent Connection Form Session 7.6:
    • Consequences of Sexual Activity – STIs
  • Squares of paper for star activity
  • Question cards
  • Question bag

Classroom Planning:

  • Review session 7.6 curriculum.
  • Make copies of handouts.
  • Gather question cards and the question bag.

National Standards:

  • AP.8.AI.1 Identify accurate and credible sources of information about sexual health.
  • HR.8.IC.2 Demonstrate effective ways to communicate personal boundaries and show respect for the boundaries of others.
  • HR.8.INF.1 Analyze the ways in which friends, family, media, society and culture can influence relationships.
  • HR.8.CC.1 Compare and contrast the characteristics of healthy and unhealthy relationships.
  • ID.8.IC.1 Communicate respectfully with and about people of all gender identities, gender expressions, and sexual orientation.
  • PD.8.AI.1 Identify medically accurate sources of information about puberty, adolescent development, and sexuality.
  • PD.8.DM.1 Demonstrate the use of a decision-making model and evaluate possible outcomes of decisions adolescents might make, including various sexual health decisions.
  • PR.8.CC.3 Explain the health benefits, risks, and effectiveness rates of various methods of contraception including abstinence and condoms.
  • PR.8.IC.1 Demonstrate the use of effective communication skills to support one’s decision to abstain from sexual behaviors.
  • PR.8.IC.2 Demonstrate the use of effective communication and negotiation skills about the use of contraception including abstinence and condoms.
  • PR.8.INF.1 Examine how alcohol and other substances, friends, family, media, society and culture influence decisions about engaging in sexual behaviors.
  • PR.8.SM.1 Describe the steps to using a condom correctly.
  • SH.8.AI.1 Identify medically accurate information about STIs, including HIV.
  • SH.8.AI.1 Identify local STI and HIV testing and treatment resources.
  • SH.8.CC.1 Define STIs, including HIV, and how they are and are not transmitted.
  • SH.8.CC.2 Compare and contrast behaviors, including abstinence, to determine the potential risk of STI/HIV transmission from each.
  • SH.8.CC.3 Describe the signs, symptoms, and potential impacts of STIs, including HIV.
  • SH.8.GS.1 Develop a plan to eliminate or reduce risk for STIs, including HIV.
  • SH.8.IC.1 Demonstrate the use of effective communication skills to reduce or eliminate risk for STIs, including HIV.

References

Activity 7.6.1
Review Session 7.5

Activity 7.6.2
Star Activity

Activity 7.6.3
Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs)

Activity 7.6.4
STI Presentations

Activity 7.6.5
Resources

Activity 7.6.6
Conclusion and Wrap Up

Sexual Offenses

Session 7.7

Session Overview:

  1. Review Session 7.6.
  2. Discuss sexual harassment and sexual assault.
  3. Answer participant questions related to curriculum topics.
  4. Wrap up session
  5. Distribute Parent Connection Form Session 7.7: Sexual Offenses.

Learning Objectives:

  • Participants will understand the definitions of sexual harassment and sexual assault.
  • Participants will learn prevention tactics and the importance of disclosing harassment or assault to a trusted adult.
  • Participants will understand that sexual abuse, harassment, or assault is never the victim’s fault.

Materials Needed:

  • Computer, projector, and speakers
  • Jar of Now and Later Candy
  • Sexual Offenses PowerPoint (7.7.2)
  • Handouts:
    • Parent Connection Form Session 7.7: Sexual Offenses
  • Question cards
  • Question bag

Classroom Planning:

  • Review Session 7.7 curriculum.
  • Make copies of handouts.
  • Gather question cards and the questionbag.

National Standards:

  • PD.8.DM.1 Demonstrate the use of a decision-making model and evaluate possible outcomes of decisions adolescents might make.
  • HR.8.CC.1 Compare and contrast the characteristics of healthy and unhealthy relationships.
  • HR.8.IC.2 Demonstrate effective ways to communicate personal boundaries and show respect for the boundaries of others.
  • HR.8.GS.1 Develop a plan to stay safe when using social media.
  • HR.8.SM.2 Describe strategies to use social media safely, legally, and respectfully.
  • ID.8.IC.1 Communicate respectfully with and about people of all gender identities, gender expressions, and sexual orientation.
  • PR.8.IC.1 Demonstrate the use of effective communication skills to support one’s decision to abstain from sexual behaviors.
  • PS.8.AI.1 Identify sources of support such as parents or other trusted adults that they can go to if they are or someone they know is being bullied, harassed, abused, or assaulted.
  • S.8.CC.1 Describe situations and behaviors that constitute bullying, sexual harassment, sexual abuse, sexual assault, incest, rape, and dating violence.
  • PS.8.CC.2 Discuss the impacts of bullying, sexual harassment, sexual abuse, sexual assault, incest, rape, and dating violence and why they are wrong.
  • PS.8.CC.3 Explain that no one has the right to touch anyone else in a sexual manner if they do not want to be touched.
  • PS.8.CC.4 Explain why a person who has been raped or sexually assaulted is not at fault.
  • PS.8.IC.1 Demonstrate ways to communicate with trusted adults about bullying, harassment, abuse or assault.
  • PS.8.SM.1 Describe ways to treat others with dignity and respect.
  • PS.8.SM.2 Demonstrate ways they can respond when someone is being bullied or harassed.
  • PD.8.DM.1 Demonstrate the use of a decision-making model and evaluate possible outcomes of decisions adolescents might make.
  • HR.8.CC.1 Compare and contrast the characteristics of healthy and unhealthy relationships.
  • HR.8.IC.1 Demonstrate communication skills that foster healthy relationships.
  • HR.8.SM.1 Explain the criteria for evaluating the health of a relationship.
  • ID.8.IC.1 Communicate respectfully with and about people of all gender identities, gender expressions, and sexual orientation.

Activity 7.7.1
Review Session 7.6

Activity 7.7.2
Sexual Offenses

Activity 7.7.3
Questions and Answers

Activity 7.7.4
Conclusion and Wrap Up

Review Topics and Discuss Lessons Learned

Session 7.8

Session Overview:

  1. Review Session 7.1-7.7.
  2. Play the 7.8.3 Think Fast! Review Game to reinforce topics covered in 7th grade curriculum.
  3. Answer participant questions related to curriculum topics.
  4. Wrap up session.
  5. Provide participants with the opportunity to provide feedback on the program and award participants for returning parent connection forms and actively engaging in the program.
  6. Distribute Parent Connection Form Session 7.8: Review.

Learning Objectives:

  • Participants will identify keys to being successful in life.
  • Participants will understand basic human needs and levels of friendship.
  • Participants will understand the processes of puberty and pregnancy.
  • Participants will understand stress, positive character traits, and peer pressure.
  • Participants will be able to use tools to resist peer pressure.
  • Participants will understand the consequences of sexual activity outside of a faithful lifelong relationship, including STIs, pregnancy or fathering a child, and emotional heartache.
  • Participants will understand sexual offenses and necessary prevention and reporting techniques.

Materials Needed:

  • Computer, projector, and speakers
  • Jar of Now and Later candy
  • Wheel with Think Fast! Review Game Cards (7.8.3)
  • Handouts:
    • Teacher Feedback Form
    • Participant Feedback Form
    • Parent Connection Form Session 7.8: Review
  • Question cards
  • Question bag

Classroom Planning:

  • Review Session 7.8 curriculum.
  • Make copies of handouts.
  • Set up 7.8.3 Wheel with Think Fast! Review Game Cards
  • Gather question cards and the question bag.

National Standards:

  • PD.8.DM.1 Demonstrate the use of a decision-making model and evaluate possible outcomes of decisions adolescents might make.
  • HR.8.CC.1 Compare and contrast the characteristics of healthy and unhealthy relationships.
  • HR.8.IC.1 Demonstrate communication skills that foster healthy relationships.
  • HR.8.SM.1 Explain the criteria for evaluating the health of a relationship.
  • ID.8.IC.1 Communicate respectfully with and about people of all gender identities, gender expressions, and sexual orientation.

Activity 7.8.1
Introduction to Final 7th Grade Session

Activity 7.8.2
Review Sessions 7.1–7.7

Activity 7.8.3
Think Fast! Review Game

Activity 7.8.4
Questions and Answers

Activity 7.8.5
Conclusion and Wrap Up

Activity 7.8.6
Participant Feedback and Incentives

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