Sexuality+education+for+secondary+schools

Published by JUSTINE SIMKIN [] This resource focuses on educating students on the risks involved in sexuality. The book works through student profiles of students who took risks in sexuality and pregnancy. Each student profile is different and can be used as part of activities throughout the books. This allows the teachers to adapt the lessons to meets the students needs. The resources in focused at years 7-10 and VELS levels 5 & 6. The resource focuses on:
 * __Underage and pregnant: Teacher pack__**
 * How it happened?
 * Choices made
 * Education
 * Physical and emotional impacts
 * Money
 * Social life
 * Preparing for birth
 * Bringing up a baby

**__ Talking Sexual Health __** Published by JUSTINE SIMKIN Ollis, D. & Mitchell, A. (2001). //Talking sexual health: a teaching and learning resource for secondary schools//. Melbourne: Australian Research Centre in sex, health and society. [] Talking sexual health is a teaching resource to help teachers provide interactive lessons in sexuality classes. The book is available in print or online to help implement sexuality into secondary schools. This resource is suitable for years 7-10 and level 5 & 6 of VELS. The resource looks at: Topics covered include: All of these topics have a large amount of activities which can be adapted to meet the needs of the students in your classroom. The book caters for a large amount of activities but can be used as part of other resources to create a sound education for students.
 * Terminology
 * Teaching and learning strategies
 * Creating a supportive learning environment
 * Over view of topics
 * Sex, drugs and health
 * Relationships
 * STI’s
 * Stepping out – homophobia
 * Assumptions about sexuality
 * Power, gender and relationships
 * Defining power
 * Maximising choice, minimising risks
 * Who can I trust

[] Kaitlyn gedye This is an information booklet for Secondary students to learn about and find information in relation to developing relationships and participating in sexual activity. I think this is a good resource as the informal nature and the language that is used appeals to students and presents the information in a non biased way. It also asks and addresses a range of realistic questions that student may have about relationships and sex such as How do I learn how to kiss? or What if my heart gets broken? Whilst this is a good resource I wouldn't teach from this, I would provide this to students as a handout for them to read in their own time. __http://bphe-health-education-resources.wikispaces.com__/ By Lillian Green
 * Love bugs game**
 * Online game
 * I used it with year 9 sexuality education as an extension game, but could be used from about year 8 up. I’d possibly also use it as a warm up activity.
 * The resource included a description of some common STIs
 * Its not that adaptable, nor does it require much skills, it’s just fun for a few minutes.
 * It’s a fun game, but you don’t learn much while actually playing the game. It’s not something you can base you lesson around.

(thanks to Linda Kirkman on facebook) __//published here by Lizzie Kay//__ http://www.scarleteen.com/ This website is Teacher and Student friendly, a fun and interactive resource to use for sex ed. Question Section is written with real and specific answers that cover a variety of general wellbeing elements, not just sex stuff. Girls, boys, gay, straight, curious, questioning, consent, it's basically all covered quite well on this site. Some of the pages are a bit wordy but still uses easy language to understand for all peeps. Other pages have neat pics:
 * Scarleteen**

@http://sexetc.org/sex-ed/info-center/stories/

This website is suited for secondary levels. I would use this website for VELS Level 5 or earlier depending on the students' maturity levels or experiences. It's a really interactive website that provides students with the opportunity to research all questions to do with sex. It's a useful website because students can look up terms, common dilemmas and queries as well as adding questions onto the website describing certain experiences. I found this website was a good way for students to communicate anonymously with one another and to share similar experiences with one another. It's also an inclusive website by dealing with all sexualities e.g. heterosexuals, homosexuals, bisexual etc. This website is based around an American approach so abstinence does come up one website. There are other discussions though into why abstinence may not be suited for all people. Once again students can discuss this with one another and with professionals on the website.

By Lauren Kearns.

**“Living with a Willy”** **By Nick Fisher** //(Janita Trickey)//

__Reference: Fisher, N. (2010). //Living with a willy.// Pan Macmillan Children’s Books.__

This resource is a book that is suitable for the secondary school setting and most effective for years 7 - 9. But year 10’s would also enjoy it. The book addresses the ‘honest’ facts about topics that adolescent boys are often concerned about in regards to their penis, such as size etc. It develops student knowledge on many myths and answers questions that students are often too scared to ask. I found this resource to be used for health subjects, in particular sexuality education. It had many chapters and it great to conclude a class, with students really intrigued with the stories and facts the book provides. Some positives of the book are that it is written in a humorous way to get the important messages across. It also provides many true stories that adolescent boys have asked. The only negative components of this resource is that because it is a long book it has to be used over a large number of lessons and does not have any visual aspects.

**//'It’s My Body'//** **//By Stephanie O'Bree//**

**//URL: http://www.itsmybody.com.au///**

The resource I am recommending is the, //‘It’s My Body’// resource. This is something that was created to assist teachers in teaching about puberty and menstruation to females from grades 5-8. This is an online resource however if you make contact with the company they can send out a teaching folder and small care __#|packages__ for the students in your class. This website offers an area for teachers and a separate area for teachers.

This teaching resource is a great tool in teaching personal development, puberty, human reproduction and sexuality for eleven to fourteen-year-olds. It aims to give students new knowledge but also some concrete hands on materials for the kinaesthetic learners. There are several fact sheets and worksheets that the teacher can do as class __#|activities__ or that students can look at on their own.

One of the best things about this site is that it has an area for students to access on their own. They can do this at home if they have questions that they don’t feel they are able to ask in front of the whole class. The little bags that are given out are more of a gimmick but that helps get the students involved and most year 5- 8 students which is where this is aimed will appreciate being given something special as well as introducing them with the tools to assist them during puberty.

This resource is specifically for females as a female product company sponsored it. This in itself can be helpful to females as it gives them their own private space to discuss, ask questions and read about the changes they may be experiencing or will experience soon. It allows them to be prepared and gives them facts that are unbiased and easy to access, something not always possible in the classroom or at home.

**Catching on** By Allira Holmes This resource is directed at year 9 and 10 year levels in the secondary school setting. By visiting this department website the teacher can download free of charge the VELS guide, teaching and __#|learning__ activities and the support guide, [] Brief description: //Catching On for Years 9 and 10// is a resource developed for use in sexuality education __#|classes__ at level 6 of the Victorian Essential Learning Standards (VELS). The resource has been designed for use at Level 6 but includes activities which can be adapted by teachers to meet some requirements in Level 5. For example, the requirement to ‘explain how community attitudes and laws influence the sense of right and wrong’ may be met by adapting Unit 2: 3, 4, 5 & 9. The requirement to ‘learn how to access reliable information about health issues affecting them’ could be met by adapting Unit 3: 9.

The aim of this resource is to provide teachers and students with information about HIV/AIDS, sexually transmissible infections and blood-borne viruses in a sexual health context. The resource is easy to use and split up into various sections. These sections include: The rresource can prove to be a valuable teaching tool when discussing different risk factors associated with sexual behaviours. This resource could be a powerful tool when used in conjunction with other resources tocover the other sexually transmitted diseases and infections. In all this reosurce is very easy to use and can be purchased in hard copy with a DVD or simply downloaded from the internet.
 * sex, sexuality and relationships
 * Sexually transmittable infections and blood-borne viruses
 * HIV/AIDS
 * HIV prevention
 * Living with HIV/AIDS

@http://www.sexualethics.org.au/ By Lorraine Beriman Moria Camody sex and ethics: Young people and Ethical sex (2009) was based on research gained from this project which formed in 2005. Initially the project interviewed young Australian women where the aim was to understand how young women and men negotiated sex and relationships. Through this research it was noted that education had failed to appropriately prepare young people in complexity of sexual intimacy including issues around consent, sexual negotiation and pressured sex. There for Moria based her framework from this and created a program along with her 25 years of experience.

The __#|program__ provides young women and men opportunities to learn new ways of negotiating sexual intimacy. The Sex & Ethics education programme focuses on promoting ethical non-violence skills that assist young people to negotiate sexual intimacy positively. There are many activities throughout her two book pack. This book pack is available for the purchase price of $79. This Sexual ethics website also offers a variety of other resources that can build the teachers understanding of sexual ethics.

There are media releases, publications, and training dates associated with the site. You do need to sort through them to find the relevant content which is a down fall as many documents are wordy. However a great place for the teacher to get some ideas and find some good resources like Moria’s sex and ethics.

A current affair link Teenage pregnancy: Second Chance [|**http://**][|**sixtyminutes.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=8231538**] This link is a 13 minute clip from sixty minutes which looks at teenage pregnancy. The clip interviews a number of teenage girls and takes viewers on an insight into their struggles of combining motherhood with school and everyday life. Additionally it looks at the introduction of a school for teenage mothers and how they juggle life, school and motherhood. The clip can be used when discussing sexual education at a lower to middle secondary level when looking at outcomes and decision making in relation to sex.
 * (Jennifer Salvo)**