In this activity, students identify reasons why young teens might postpone sexual activity.

This group activity is designed to help preadolescents identify common concerns about their changing bodies and changing lives. It also allows them to recognize the normal variation in shape, form and rate of development of their bodies, in general, and sexual organs, specifically. The ultimate goal of the activity is to provide reassurance to preteens who often have genuine worries about their development.

In this lesson, students explain why providing contraceptive education can be a controversial issue and list possible pros and cons of providing teens with contraceptive education. They will also practice being an advocate for policy change and practice making controversial decisions in a mock board of directors meeting.

Students will discuss negative and positive attitudes about condom use and determine that condom use is essential during sexual activity to help prevent pregnancy and STD's.

Students will discuss the benefits of abstinence, identify and explain the use of at least three methods of contraception, identify the availability of these methods in the community, and discuss the optimal time to communicate with partners about contraceptive use.

In this lesson, students describe the major cultural influences in their lives and identify positive and negative cultural messages they receive about health, sex, and gender.

This activity is intended to follow a lesson on the range of safe and appropriate birth control methods, including emergency contraception (EC). It is designed to clarify why EC is best used for emergency situations rather than as a means of ongoing birth control.

Students will understand and practice the important elements of assertive communication and distinguish between assertive, passive and aggressive communication styles.

Students will identify guidelines for helping a friend who has been sexually abused.

This activity is designed to be one component of a pregnancy prevention lesson for high school students. Its purpose is for students to identify pregnancy risk-taking behaviors they may have, reflect on their comfort level with their risks of pregnancy, and identify what they can do to reduce their pregnancy risk-taking behavior.

In this lesson, students describe the importance of friendship in their lives and identify at least three skills needed to develop and maintain friendships.

This group activity is designed to identify the connections between negative body image and sexual decision making.

At the completion of this activity, students will be able to use the decision-making model to make a difficult decision.

Students will gather information and identify resources related to teen pregnancy prevention using the internet.

This activity helps children learn to integrate the sexual parts of their bodies with the rest of their bodies. Students are given the opportunity to draw male and female external genitals on outline figures.

In this learning activity, students describe the physical and emotional changes that occur in adolescents during puberty.

Students will identify local, national and on-line resources for current reproductive health information, and educate a friend about a new contraceptive method or another reproductive health advance.

Students will identify the impact of negative events such as parental conflict and criticism on a child/adolescent's developing self esteem and identify strategies for increasing one's self esteem.